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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

https://lemmy.ml/post/44059976

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967 [https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967] > for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527] > > > HN comments [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177]

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hobata Mar 5

Well, I do not get his point, the code has been completely rewritten. Not to mention that the new license is much better than the old one.

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CommanderCloon Mar 5

This is a vast downgrade; stripping the GPL is an obvious attempt at nuking open source by bad faith actors. See what’s happening with AOSP, which would be impossible under GPL.

The day GPL stops being used is the day every major tech company will start slowly but surely closing their code down until open source is completely dead

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hobata

What is happening with AOSP has nothing to do with the license. This project is not being developed by the community, but by Google for Google’s money, and Google can do whatever it wants with it. It’s silly to be offended by this. Anyone who is dissatisfied can fork the project and do whatever they want with it, if they can manage *(well, no, without Google’s resources, this is of course unrealistic).