This prompted me to revisit my own decision to avoid Codeberg by re-reading their Terms of Use[1]. A few things stand out:

   - They explicitly require all hosted software to have a FLOSS license

   - Private repos are only allowed in support of Public FLOSS repos, with a scary ambiguous note about "really small and personal stuff"

   - Projects with heavy use of coding AI are explicitly forbidden

For reference, here's the parts of the TOS that define the above:

> 1. Public repository content shall be made available under a copyright licence [...] referred to as ‘licences for free and open source software, free and open source hardware, or free cultural works’. Examples of such licences include those created or approved for free software projects by the Free Software Foundation, for open source projects by the Open Source Initiative, and for free cultural works by Creative Commons. Note, however, that the Creative Commons licences with Non-Commercial (NC) or No Derivatives (ND) restrictions are not licences for free cultural works and thus do not fulfil the licensing requirement.

> 2. Private repositories are only allowed for things required for FLOSS projects, like storing secrets, team-internal discussions or hiding projects from the public until they're ready for usage and/or contribution. They are also allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config files, ideas or notes, but explicitly not as a personal cloud or media storage.

> 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).

[1] https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/TermsOfUse...

Interesting. Every time Codeberg was mentioned on here it was perfectly clear they only host public open source projects.

Why would you even assume they allow private repos?

Yes that's correct. They don't want you, they say good riddance. They want to support free software.