2 months ago
- Codeberg updated its terms to exclude projects mostly written with generative AI, which the author views as within its rights but not necessarily wise or inclusive.
- Democracy in infrastructure does not guarantee predictability or neutrality; a democratic provider without a clear constitution may be less reliable than a corporation.
- The term 'mostly' in the policy is ambiguous and hard to enforce, making it difficult to determine authorship percentages in active codebases.
- A clearer rule—either banning all LLM involvement or addressing spam and resource abuse directly—would be preferable to the current middle ground.
- The open source community is deeply divided over LLMs and agents, yet these tools are becoming integral to software development and need constructive engagement.
- The author wishes Codeberg were more forward-looking, aiming to host future open source software rather than only software made in currently approved ways.