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763 points easton | 2 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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doso ◴[21 Oct 25 18:23 UTC] No.45659580[source]▶
Something's bugging me about Atlas - it's clearly Chromium-based (you can tell from the user agent and UI), but I can't find any credit to Chromium anywhere. No license info, no acknowledgments, and when I try to access chrome:// pages they're blocked.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but shouldn't there be some transparency about what you're building on top of? Especially with open source projects that have attribution requirements? I get that it's still early days, but this feels like a pretty basic thing to get right.

Anyone else notice this or know if this is standard practice? Just seems odd to me that they're not being upfront about the foundation they're building on.

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1. hbn ◴[21 Oct 25 21:16 UTC] No.45661829[source]▶
If you go to

Help > ChaptGPT Atlas Help

it'll link you to some docs[1] and under "Setting up the Atlas browser"[2] it opens with

> Atlas is OpenAI’s Mac browser built on Chromium.

If that counts for anything.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/collections/16051538-chatgpt-atla...

[2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12628461-setting-up-the-...

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2. doso ◴[22 Oct 25 06:55 UTC] No.45665696[source]▶
That does help a bit—at least there is some public acknowledgment buried in the help docs. But isn’t BSD license attribution usually expected within the product itself (like a credits screen or in-app NOTICE)? It feels like this isn’t meeting the standard for open source transparency—especially for a major project like Atlas.