Codeberg
Open-source software development services organization
Codeberg e.V. is a German nonprofit organization specializing in open-source software development services.
01Services
Codeberg provides an online collaborative software development environment with Forgejo, static page hosting with Codeberg Pages, a collaborative translation web platform with Weblate and CI/CD with Woodpecker CI and Forgejo Actions.
Development of the Gitea-fork Forgejo also takes place on Codeberg.
02History
Codeberg e.V. was established in September 2018 with seven founding members and launched as Codeberg.org in January 2019. 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. After one month, the Codeberg e.V. organization had 25 members, and Codeberg.org hosted 333 repositories with 379 users.
In 2022, the Software Freedom Conservancy started its "Give up GitHub"-campaign, which included Codeberg as one of the suggested alternatives. In December 2022, Codeberg launched Forgejo, a fork of Gitea, in response to a controversial change in direction of the Gitea Project, initially synchronising all changes which occurred on Gitea. In February 2024, the Forgejo project decided to cease synchronising with changes from Gitea, citing reduced maintenance overhead and stability reasons.
As of November 2025, Codeberg hosts over 300,000 repositories and has more than 200,000 registered user accounts and its members had also grown to 1208.
In recent years, multiple large open source projects have migrated from GitHub to Codeberg: At the end of November 2025, the Zig programming language announced moving to Codeberg as "GitHub no longer demonstrates commitment to engineering excellence." Around the same time, the founder of Dillo announced moving away from GitHub, including setting up a mirror on Codeberg, due to GitHub's "over-focusing on LLMs and generative AI". In February 2026, Gentoo announced its presence on Codeberg, citing GitHub’s attempts to force them to use Copilot as the motivation for the move.
In July 2026, Codeberg amended its terms of service to prohibit users from sharing vibe-coded and cryptocurrencies-related projects.
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Codeberg”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Fathomly is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Spotted a problem? Tell us.
