Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

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.

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 https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html 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.