Linux forks
Linux forks
Posted Jul 23, 2026 19:57 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Linux forks by Cyberax
Parent article: Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
>7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools [..].
It's pretty clear.
It's a general ban of "mostly" generated code. (whatever "mostly" means). No ominous "only low quality".
It goes on explaining why it's banned:
>Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3)
False.
>and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).
I'm not even sure what this is supposed to mean.
Handwritten code also has no such safeguards. (whatever that is)
The xz backdoor was good ol'(tm) handwritten(tm) code.
To tool to prevent such harmful code is called "review". That has nothing to do with whether the code was generated or not.