No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
a good bit of OSS drama. The maintainers of the "chardet" library claim to have "clean room" reimplemented its code using an LLM, to relicense from LGPL to MIT. Of course that is now how this works (an LLM is not capable of "clean room", nor is its output copyrightable). Mark Pilgrim, as the code's original author, is not happy either....
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