Citation and rights
The canonical creator is firefly, represented as a pseudonymous organizational creator. The publisher and series are Hoxy Papers. This release candidate is version 0.1.0: Public review, dated 2026-07-22. It has no DOI.
Suggested citation for frozen release 0.1.0:
firefly. What Makes Search Stay Open? An executable audit of Picbreeder with vision-language models. Hoxy Papers, version 0.1.0, published 2026-07-22. https://papers.hoxy.dev/open-endedness/releases/0.1.0/
Latest publication (may change): https://papers.hoxy.dev/open-endedness/
Version-specific machine-readable formats are generated from the same canonical record:
Scope of the license
No single license covers the whole deployment. These grants apply by scope:
Hoxy prose and original figures: From public version 0.1.0 onward, prose authored for this publication and original publication figures are offered under CC BY 4.0 and attributed to firefly.
Dataset-derived compact evidence: CC BY-NC 4.0.
Runtime code: Starmd, Starimo, Stardust, StarHTML, and shipped executable runtime code remain proprietary unless separately licensed.
Source paper: The source paper remains under its own CC BY 4.0 grant.
Other third-party assets: Media, fonts, libraries, and dependencies retain their respective licenses.
Private build material: Private repositories and build definitions are not publicly licensed.
The rights manifest maps shipped artifacts to these scopes. It explicitly records that the whole deployment has not been relicensed.
Source paper
Based on: Sam Earle, Kai Arulkumaran, Andrew Dai, Akarsh Kumar, Julian Togelius, and Sebastian Risi, In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models, arXiv:2605.23908v2 (2026), CC BY 4.0.