Codeberg

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Codeberg e.V.
Type Eingetragener Verein
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Services
Membership1100+ [1]
Expenses€1050 per month (2022) [2]
Staff1 part-time (2022) [2]
Website codeberg.org

Codeberg e.V. is a German nonprofit organization specialized in open-source software development services.

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Services

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. [3]

History

Codeberg e.V. was established in September 2018 with 7 founding members and launched as Codeberg.org in January 2019. [4] 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. [5] After one month, the Codeberg e.V. organization had 25 members, and Codeberg.org hosted 333 repositories with 379 users. [6]

In 2022, the Software Freedom Conservancy started its "Give up GitHub"-campaign, which included Codeberg as one of the suggested alternatives. [7] In December 2022, Codeberg launched Forgejo, a soft fork of Gitea, in response to a controversial change in direction of the Gitea Project. [8] In February 2024, the Forgejo project decided to hard fork from Gitea, [9] 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. [3] [10] At the end of November 2025, the Zig programming language announced moving to Codeberg as "GitHub no longer demonstrates commitment to engineering excellence". [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Codeberg.org". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. Archived from the original on 3 October 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Letter from Codeberg: We are now an employer!". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. 15 June 2022. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 Brockmeier, Joe (23 February 2024). "Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea". LWN.net . Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  4. ↑ "Monthly Report January 2019". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. 8 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Shimokawa, Andreas (15 November 2019). "Codeberg: A free home for free projects". South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON). Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Monthly Report January 2019". Codeberg.org. Codeberg e.V. 8 February 2019. Archived from the original on 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy". sfconservancy.org. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  8. ↑ The Forgejo Contributors. "Codeberg launches Forgejo". Codeberg. Codeberg e.V. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Forgejo forks its own path forward". Forgejo. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and upwards!". blog.codeberg.org. Retrieved 1 December 2025.
  11. ↑ Claburn, Thomas (2 December 2025). "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service". The Register.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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