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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 13 hours ago

"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite

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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

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 13 hours ago
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No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
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Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967

for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527

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    I have a completely different view of what free means. xGPL are restrictive and sticky.

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      Ok, maybe explain the restrictions that offend you so much?

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