Using LLM backed codegen to falsely relicense from copyleft licensing like LGPL to anything resembling MIT/BSD style licensing isn't just laundering code - it's an active attack on the labour aspect of the free software movement. It is an attempt to undo forcing cooperation by using the existing copyright system, subverting the very commons which they plundered to create these tools.

This is why playing by the rules rarely gets you change.

I also think end users and past contributors of chardet are being actively cheated here. This is a new project masquerading as continuity. This actively erases all pre-7 contibutions and authorship to an LGPL codebase, and shouldn’t even be pretending to be a new release of the same library.

How is this not just vandalism, I do not know.

@maxine folks should definitely not upgrade

@maxine the past contributors are victims too. How will any bug ever be fixed again? Nobody has any context on the code or features they previously submitted.

I know they will say the answer is "just prompt Claude to fix the bugs lol" but, yeah, no