> How much does it cost to host a few text files

At large scale, it probably adds up. Remember that they also need to ensure backup, etc. Whether or not your code is being "used" or not, it has a cost.

Even GitHub has been struggling last year with the ramping amount of LLM produced code. I can imagine that it is a real issue.

They already encourage users to use 'agit' instead of doing 'physical' forks.

I imagine that the costs are sufficient enough to motivate them to follow through on this; on top of the ethical and legal concerns.

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Why don't you host your own git for those dormant projects? It's really easy, you don't even need a forge. Just a bare git repo on server via ssh and you off to the races.

I think their stance is fine; there are other providers if you don't agree with this.