Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
Date:
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:27:38 +0000
Description:
The Codeberg forge has adopted a pair of new policies, promising not to use hosted projects to train LLMs and, more controversially, banning the
hosting of LLM-generated software. The site's blog describes
and justifies these policies. Although often well intentioned, sharing the result of a prompt
and calling it "libre software" does not make the world a better
place. Codeberg is not and does not want to be a place to dump such
generated single-use software that no one else will ever look
at. We are a place for people to collaborate and improve software
together. Within this context, the recent votes can be understood
as a reconfirmation of those principles: As we want to center on
human collaboration, we will not actively support or engage in the
creation of LLMs and will not put our limited resources to use for
storing single-use software that would pollute our FLOSS commons.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1084404/
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