Codeberg Divides

Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Since I want GitHub to face competition I have thoughts. Codeberg is entirely within its rights to do this. It is an association with members and a democratic process, and that process produced a result. But democracy is a way of making a decision, not a guarantee that the decision is inclusive, wise, or even good for the people already depending on it. A majority can still decide that certain projects and people no longer belong. GitHub’s governance has never been democratic and there is plenty about the platform that I dislike. Yet democracy is not the main property I need from infrastructure. I need it to be predictable, dependable, and reasonably neutral towards the legal Open Source software hosted on it. A democratic provider without a clear constitution can be worse at those things than a corporation. The actual wording makes this more difficult. The terms prohibit projects that…