The organization selected the European Union for their headquarters and computer infrastructure, due to members’ concerns that a software project repository hosted in the United States could be removed if a malicious actor made bad faith copyright claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
In June 2022 the Software Freedom Conservancy’s“Give Up Github” campaign (in response to the GitHub Copilot licensing controversy) promoted Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub.
Yeah, I feel like if they really wanted to HQ in a country resilient to US DMCA fuckery or EU Commission anti-encryption anti-privacy from the government fuckery they’d set up shop in Vietnam or something.
Unfortunately using codeberg itself is kinda crap. Its not the worst thing in the world, but it still has zero discoverability , and is missing features like code search.
– A wild Codeberg appeared. –
Website: Codeberg.org
Wikipedia: Codeberg e.V.
Conservancy: Give Up GitHub!
Certainly better than the U.S. in that regard but I wouldn’t consider Germany “resilient” either.
Yeah, I feel like if they really wanted to HQ in a country resilient to US DMCA fuckery or EU Commission anti-encryption anti-privacy from the government fuckery they’d set up shop in Vietnam or something.
Unfortunately using codeberg itself is kinda crap. Its not the worst thing in the world, but it still has zero discoverability , and is missing features like code search.
it does have potential though if it is resilient.