Codeberg seems to ban vibecoded Projects; reason might be german copyright law

>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 declared as being of the model owner, and it isn’t a copy of something else.
That is a cautious reasonable position - in early days of LLM coding (3 years ago!) indemnity from model companies was a major issue globally because of the lack of clarity of the law around this. The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain. But I don’t think that is fully settled, and it certainly isn’t settled in international copyright law.
The goal of the vague “mostly” in the Codeberg change is to ensure there is enough human input to the code they host, to be reasonably sure under German copyright law it is copyright of the person sharing it.

edit: link to poll that caused it (might be down due to high traffic) https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

edit 1: i dont defend/oppose this move, i just find it interesting

  • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf
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    12 hours ago

    If copyright status is the reason, they should ban any, even a single-line AI contributions.

    And it seems a short-sighted decision. Now AI is slop, but what about in 10? 20 years? They would rewrite TOS again?

    And what about people they want to migrate from GitHub?

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      12 hours ago

      They would rewrite TOS again?

      Yes, that is how that works.

      And what about people they want to migrate from GitHub?

      Slop to Microslop, code to Codeberg. That simple.

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      10 hours ago

      There are plenty of other public git forges you can migrate your LLM assisted projects to 🤷

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      7 hours ago

      TOS get rewritten way more often than once every ten to twenty years lol, that it really not a big deal.