As a follow up, I've taken a closer look, and my personal opinion is that Northstar web browser should mot be accepted in Debian; not because of the copyright issues, but because of security concerns. I've written them up in the ITP bug here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1142659&pow_referer=#55 Also, for people who are interested in the copyright issues, the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) has a very interesting article, "Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software?") dated August 2026: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html >From its table of contents: 1. Copyright and Licensing in Free Software 2. Copyright only applies to implementation 3. Only a natural person can be an author 4. Public Domain and the level of human authorship 5. Outliers for authorship requirements: The UK and Ireland 6. Principles of copyrightability in Assisted Works from the USA 7. Using prompts alone is insufficient for copyright 8. Machine modification of original input 9. Modification and/or rearrangement of generated output 10. Copyright infringement 11. Formalized recognition of copyright in assisted work 12. Copyfraud and concealment of AI usage 13. Recommendations for AI usage in Free Software contributions Cheers, - Ted
