AIBRIEF
The Berlin non profit's members cited cost shifting onto volunteer maintainers and named specific AI coding tools in its terms of service.
Codeberg e.V., a Berlin non-profit that hosts Git repositories for the Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) community, has voted 358 to 144, with 14 abstentions, to refuse "vibe-coded" projects: repositories produced mostly by AI coding assistants with little or no human review. About half the platform's active members voted.
The change, reported by The Register and detailed in a Codeberg blog post signed by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Otto Richter, and William Zijl, lists four grievances: cost externalization onto volunteers, hardware-price inflation, environmental harm, and "license laundering" of copyleft code through AI pipelines. The post cites a workstation SSD that cost roughly €700 a few years ago and now runs around €3,700, often out of stock.
The amended terms, merged in this commit, name Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex as banned sources. The same vote also excluded cryptocurrency projects, following the Git host SourceHut's 2023 move, in a related Codeberg issue thread.
Enforcement will likely remain symbolic absent attention, given Codeberg's all-volunteer capacity. The decision drew public criticism from Armin Ronacher, creator of the Flask web framework, on social media. A separate amendment that would make opposing discrimination the platform's stated purpose passed with a two-thirds majority but is not yet merged, and the new rules do not extend protections to belief in AI.