Codeberg bans projects that are mostly AI-generated code

Sources: Codeberg Terms of Use pull request, HN discussion
Summary: Codeberg, the nonprofit Gitea-based code-hosting forge, amended its Terms of Use in July 2026 after a membership vote to prohibit projects that "mostly consist of code written by 'generative AI'-tools", naming services such as Claude and OpenAI Codex. The stated reason is copyright ambiguity: LLM-generated code sits in unclear legal territory on ownership, and the nonprofit lacks the resources to defend against future claims. The rule targets whole repositories rather than individual AI-assisted contributions, and leadership said it would publish a blog post on enforcement details.
Why it matters: A general-purpose forge rejecting predominantly AI-authored repositories on copyright-liability grounds is a different rationale from Godot's reviewer-capacity ban, and sets a hosting-level precedent in the AI-authorship debate.