Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

The Codeberg forge has adopted a pair of new policies, promising not to usehosted projects to train LLMs and, more controversially, banning thehosting of LLM-generated software. The site's blog describesand justifies these policies.

Although often well intentioned, sharing the result of a promptand calling it "libre software" does not make the world a betterplace. Codeberg is not and does not want to be a place to dump suchgenerated single-use software that no one else will ever lookat. We are a place for people to collaborate and improve softwaretogether. Within this context, the recent votes can be understoodas a reconfirmation of those principles: As we want to center onhuman collaboration, we will not actively support or engage in thecreation of LLMs and will not put our limited resources to use forstoring single-use software that would pollute our FLOSS commons.