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"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite (github.com)
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for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.

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[-] ell1e@leminal.space 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if the potential problem wasn't limited to the original chardet alone, regarding what might be affected by this rewrite allegedly having silently relicensed code...

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