Morten LinderudMar 4

Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

That is one way to launder GPL code I guess?

Release 7.0.0 · chardet/chardet

Ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. Same package name, same public API — drop-in replacement for chardet 5.x/6.x. Just way faster and more accurate! Highlights: MIT license (previous versi...

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Show threadJesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)
@Foxboron, not to mention it doesn't pass its own test suite.
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Show threadMorten LinderudMar 4
@mgorny
Amazing.
Show threadKrzysztof SakrejdaMar 4

@mgorny @Foxboron

That's beautiful

Show threadLaíns ⚡🌈🇵🇸Mar 4
@mgorny @Foxboron and they somehow fudged the git history, it seems like they added an orphan commit to the 5.x tags in order to fix readthedocs? at least the tags are marked as immutable now 🙃