• Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Jul 24 06:40:08 2026
    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.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1084404/
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