It’s still rather poorly worded, though. The ban is: “Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects” which makes it seem like cryptocurrency is inherently scammy.
Like, I see, if I wanted to roll my own shitcoin, I can’t publish the source code of it on Codeberg.
But, say, a Blockchain lookup app - technically it’s a cryptocurrency related project, but at the end of the day it’s just an app that connects to a public API and lists data from it. Is it also banned?
Or, I make an open source smart clock, from an LED matrix and an ESP32. This smart clock can link to YouTube/Twitch/etc. for viewer count, to GitHub for project stars/forks, to currency exchanges, and one includes a crypto exchange rate tracker for displaying current mainstream coin valuations (say, the top 5 most used coins). Is this project, since it’s crypto related, banned?
Or let’s say I come up with something blockchain adjacent, that could be utilised for cryptocurrency use… and what if I just publish a new cryptographic approach that then gets used by a new cryptocoin that suddenly becomes famous?
Or if my project uses a cryptographic system that comes from a dependency that was broken out of a cryptocurrency project?
Where do we draw the line of “related”? What level of relationship is allowed with the world of cryptocurrency? What degree of separation is deemed appropriate?
Even completely disregarding the cryptocurrency angle, “content that harms the reputation of Codeberg” is wide open to all sorts of future arbitrary interpretation. It basically means “if a lot of people dislike your project we nuke it.” Who knows when a lot of people are going to end up disliking your project? Who decides which people’s opinion matter to Codeberg’s reputation? And it’s something that can change at any time.
Maybe some open-source Fediverse server’s code is being hosted on Codeberg, and then one day some big news story breaks about how it was being used as the server for some big child porn distribution ring or something like that. The server’s name is showing up in news articles about this. Does it now “harm Codeberg’s reputation” for it to continue being hosted there? Boom, gone. Through no action or intent by the server’s authors, through nothing they could control or anticipate.
It’s still rather poorly worded, though. The ban is: “Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as cryptocurrency related projects” which makes it seem like cryptocurrency is inherently scammy.
Edit: Looks like clarification is being asked for.
It’s incredibly vague still, that’s the problem.
Like, I see, if I wanted to roll my own shitcoin, I can’t publish the source code of it on Codeberg.
But, say, a Blockchain lookup app - technically it’s a cryptocurrency related project, but at the end of the day it’s just an app that connects to a public API and lists data from it. Is it also banned?
Or, I make an open source smart clock, from an LED matrix and an ESP32. This smart clock can link to YouTube/Twitch/etc. for viewer count, to GitHub for project stars/forks, to currency exchanges, and one includes a crypto exchange rate tracker for displaying current mainstream coin valuations (say, the top 5 most used coins). Is this project, since it’s crypto related, banned?
Or let’s say I come up with something blockchain adjacent, that could be utilised for cryptocurrency use… and what if I just publish a new cryptographic approach that then gets used by a new cryptocoin that suddenly becomes famous?
Or if my project uses a cryptographic system that comes from a dependency that was broken out of a cryptocurrency project?
Where do we draw the line of “related”? What level of relationship is allowed with the world of cryptocurrency? What degree of separation is deemed appropriate?
Even completely disregarding the cryptocurrency angle, “content that harms the reputation of Codeberg” is wide open to all sorts of future arbitrary interpretation. It basically means “if a lot of people dislike your project we nuke it.” Who knows when a lot of people are going to end up disliking your project? Who decides which people’s opinion matter to Codeberg’s reputation? And it’s something that can change at any time.
Maybe some open-source Fediverse server’s code is being hosted on Codeberg, and then one day some big news story breaks about how it was being used as the server for some big child porn distribution ring or something like that. The server’s name is showing up in news articles about this. Does it now “harm Codeberg’s reputation” for it to continue being hosted there? Boom, gone. Through no action or intent by the server’s authors, through nothing they could control or anticipate.