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boramalperyesterday at 2:45 PM1 replyview on HN

> It's interesting because the terms have repeatedly stated that using them isn't banned

This is the relevant part in Codeberg's Terms of Use: [0]

> You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

The only ambiguous part is what "mostly" means in practice, but otherwise the Terms of Use is pretty clear. I'll admit that their blog post [1] is more inclusive and tries to clarify things but it's all just one very unnecessary drama [2].

[0] https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

[1] https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-...

[2] The proposal for this change was called "ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions" so you can tell that some people are very opinionated on this.


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lardosaurusrexyesterday at 2:52 PM

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