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Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by flohofwoe »

AyanamiKaine wrote: post #46

It seems the conflict between LLM/AI and programmers is getting hotter and hotter by the week. I wonder where all of this will lead. Our times are uncertain. Many people believe with certainity the future. But only one will come true.

> But only one will come true.

Eh, if this would be true than we would have arrived at a single religion, a single language, a single economic system or a single political ideology. Reality is the opposite, ideas tend to diverge instead of converge.

E.g. the 'agentic engineering believers' will just be another tribe in the jungle.

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by jeroenhd »

joegibbs wrote: post #75
account42 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no burden of proof for them as they have no obligation to provide a service to anyone.

That legalistic "I can do whatever I want as long as it's not breaking the law" argumnet lasts until the first time they ban wrongfully ban someone for it and get huge negative PR

The support they will receive for banning slop will probably outweigh the negative press for a false positive.

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by ed_blackburn »

Is this "don't vibe" code, or "don't accept" code written with agents? We have a philosophical (and potentially legal) aversion to code written by models.

I can appreciate not wanting to fill Codeberg up with potential AI slop, though the effort to validate is likely higher than just accepting it. What I think will backfire is being one of the most prominent alternatives to GitHub and prohibiting code written by models, which is currently a large constituency and one which is growing exponentially.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by lionkor »

jorisw wrote: post #43
exploderate wrote: post #30

They are a non-profit with a mission to support free software: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws.... However, they do this because of copyright status and harmful code: "7. 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 an…

So 'mostly' is the clearest they get here. Meaning more than 50% of lines of code? At any given time?

This makes sense from a copyright perspective -- as long as you maintain 50% or more actual human authorship, in case of a conflict with future copyright laws around LLM generated code, you can at least claim that a majority of the code is human-authored.

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

#95

Post by ande-mnoc »

OleksandrC wrote: post #57
timjver wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't really answer the question of how they're going to detect it at scale. Ban repositories with long comments?

They could, for example: 1. Rely on users flagging suspected repos (with human moderators reviewing afterwards). 2. Deploying AI agents to evaluate repos against known AI-generated-code patterns (also with human moderators afterwards). Of course, the irony of the situation - using slop machines to fight slop.

It’s very poetic that codes written without human efforts can be efficiently dealt without human efforts.

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by jeroenhd »

rarisma wrote: post #49

Baffling. Why are they the arbiters of what is made? Also does this break s230?

I don't think American laws such as s230 apply here, as Codeberg is German.

If you want to be the arbiter of what you make, throw an instance of https://forgejo.org/ online. It's practically the same as Codeberg except you get full control.

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

ed_blackburn wrote: post #93

Is this "don't vibe" code, or "don't accept" code written with agents? We have a philosophical (and potentially legal) aversion to code written by models. I can appreciate not wanting to fill Codeberg up with potential AI slop, though the effort to validate is likely higher than just accepting it. What I think will backfire is being one of the most prominent alternatives to GitHub and prohibiting code written by mode…

> though the effort to validate is likely higher than just accepting it.

Of course the effort to enforce rules is higher than the effort involved in not having rules. What is your point?

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by veeti »

frabcus wrote: post #80

Germany copyright law feels like the relevant thing here - Codeberg is a non-profit based in Germany. Best quick English language overview of status that I could find: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/germany/when-can-a... It looks like Codeberg want only copyrighted material in their service, so it is reliable in the future that e.g. licenses must be followed (e.g. GPL), and copyright doesn't suddenly get d…

Once you look at how German anti-nuclear lobbying set Europe back decades on its energy independence and made us dependent on authoritarian hellholes of the world, it all makes sense. They just want to do the same with AI.

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by witx »

lionkor wrote: post #90

Why are all the vibe coders so upset? Places that have mostly non-polluted projects will be fantastic for future model training. Codeberg doing this will mean that it will be scraped and part of all future models' learning input, surely? They have never cared and will never care about anyone's rights.

Vibecoders are implictly in favour of stealing content (code, art, books) so they get bothered by others taking a stance against that

Re: Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

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Post by flohofwoe »

veeti wrote: post #98
frabcus wrote: post #80

Germany copyright law feels like the relevant thing here - Codeberg is a non-profit based in Germany. Best quick English language overview of status that I could find: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2026/germany/when-can-a... It looks like Codeberg want only copyrighted material in their service, so it is reliable in the future that e.g. licenses must be followed (e.g. GPL), and copyright doesn't suddenly get d…

Once you look at how German anti-nuclear lobbying set Europe back decades on its energy independence and made us dependent on authoritarian hellholes of the world, it all makes sense. They just want to do the same with AI.

    > user: veeti
    > about: Just trolling.
Well, at least you're upfront about it ;)
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