Codeberg takes its side in the open-source scene's AI debate by banning vibe-coded projects

Published Jul 23, 2026, 1:54 AM EDT Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to technician for all computer issues, he found his passion for writing and decided to use his skill set to write about all things tech. Since beginning his writing career, he has written for many different publications such as WorldStart, Listverse, and MakeTechEasier. However, after finding his home at MakeUseOf in February 2019, he would eventually move on to its sister site, XDA, to bring the latest and greatest in Windows, Linux, and DIY electronics. Sign in to your XDA account Summary Codeberg bans projects that mostly consist of generative AI-written code. Community vote favored the ban: 358 for, 144 against (~71% to ban). Small amounts of AI code are allowed; projects must not be mostly AI-generated. As AI coding tools evolve over time, the open-source scene has been drawing its lines in the sand as to how much AI is too much. On one side of the debate, Linus Torvalds has stated that he thinks AI tools are useful (which has attracted backlash). On the other side, we saw Fedora's community tear down the plans for an AI Developer Desktop spin. Now, the open-source alternative to GitHub, Codeberg, has made its own stance known. The service has banned vibe-coded projects, although you're allowed to have a little bit of AI code. Codeberg declares a ban on projects with a lot of AI code in them But it's not a total ban on all AI Credit: Codeberg Over on the Codeberg website, the community has made its thoughts known about people using the service to host vibe-coded projects. The poll ended with 358 votes to ban them, and 144 votes to not ban them. That's ~71% of the total vote going toward banning AI-generated code. As such, Codeberg has now updated its Terms of Use to read the following: 7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as *Claude*, *OpenAI Codex*). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5). It's worth noting that this stops projects that "mostly consist" of AI-written code. As such, it seems that using a little bit of AI-generated code is fine, as long as you're not asking your LLM to generate an entire app and then immediately uploading it to Codeberg.