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 threadDekkiaMar 4
@Foxboron Considering that nobody can hold a copyright on AI-generated stuff, and therefore also can't release it under a different license, doesn't that mean this rewrite is basically public domain?
Show threadMorten LinderudMar 4
@dekkia
Public domain is not really a thing in most of the world. So "yes", for US. For EU it's more complicated.
Show threadDekkia

@Foxboron As far as I'm aware here in Germany it technically has copyright, but there's no owner who can enforce it.

I guess complicated is a good word for that.

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Show threadPixelcode 🇺🇦Mar 4
@dekkia @Foxboron Not really, a creator (in the copyright sense) can only be a human being, not a machine.