{"slug": "codeberg-protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms", "title": "Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs", "summary": "Codeberg, a free-software hosting platform, has adopted policies prohibiting the use of its hosted projects to train large language models (LLMs) and banning the hosting of LLM-generated software. The organization stated that it aims to center on human collaboration and will not support the creation of LLMs or store single-use generated software that would pollute the FLOSS commons.", "body_md": "The Codeberg forge has adopted a pair of new policies, promising not to use\nhosted projects to train LLMs and, more controversially, banning the\nhosting of LLM-generated software. The site's blog [describes\nand justifies](https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html) these policies.\n\nAlthough often well intentioned, sharing the result of a prompt\nand calling it \"libre software\" does not make the world a better\nplace. Codeberg is not and does not want to be a place to dump such\ngenerated single-use software that no one else will ever look\nat. We are a place for people to collaborate and improve software\ntogether. Within this context, the recent votes can be understood\nas a reconfirmation of those principles: As we want to center on\nhuman collaboration, we will not actively support or engage in the\ncreation of LLMs and will not put our limited resources to use for\nstoring single-use software that would pollute our FLOSS commons.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codeberg-protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms", "canonical_source": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1084404/", "published_at": "2026-07-23 13:27:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 13:43:32.982119+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Codeberg"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codeberg-protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codeberg-protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codeberg-protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/codeberg-protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.jsonld"}}