On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 3:45 AM Theodore Tso <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 heodore Tso, Thank you for reporting this. We will be improving the browser based on your findings. By performing this security review and publishing the findings, you are helping make this fine web browser more secure. I would welcome a followup security review in some time so that we can verify that all the issues have been resolved. Sincerely, Andreas Røsdal
