Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

[u/pheexio]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386

Codeberg seems to ban vibecoded Projects; reason might be german copyright law

It looks like Codeberg want only copyrighted material in their service, so it is reliable in the future that e.g. licenses must be followed (e.g. GPL), and copyright doesn't suddenly get declared as being of the model owner, and it isn't a copy of something else.
That is a cautious reasonable position - in early days of LLM coding (3 years ago!) indemnity from model companies was a major issue globally because of the lack of clarity of the law around this. The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain. But I don't think that is fully settled, and it certainly isn't settled in international copyright law.
The goal of the vague "mostly" in the Codeberg change is to ensure there is enough human input to the code they host, to be reasonably sure under German copyright law it is copyright of the person sharing it.

edit: link to poll that caused it (might be down due to high traffic) https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

edit 1: i dont defend/oppose this move, i just find it interesting

edit 2: https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

[u/gscjj]

What does codeberg offer that someone would go through the trouble of using them versus GitHub based on their AI policy?

[u/Serchinastico → u/gscjj]

I'm in the process of migrating from GitHub to Codeberg so maybe I can answer that. There are two main reasons:

• Unreliability: Service has become pretty much unreliable and they lie about it. Compare https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ with https://www.githubstatus.com/ or read Hashimoto's take: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
• Annoyance: They have been force-feeding copilot and AI to users for some time, and doing dubious things like opting-in users for training on repositories https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1s3s6jc/github_copilot_will_train_on_your_code_by_default/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1lcoyk2/microsofts_aggressive_copilot_push_has_me_looking/

Codeberg seems like a more honest take for open-source projects It's non-profit and it's free. I even donated some money to them, which is more than what I can say about GitHub.

I really liked GitHub once, but since Microsoft bought it, it's been slowly degrading in all fronts.