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A new twist in the "AI license laundering of chardet" story https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

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...

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Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 5

But really, relicensing a GPL codebase to MIT is uninteresting.

Let's do the interesting one, which is: vibe code a "clean room" reimplementation of an entire proprietary codebase! After all, Microsoft released a "shared source" proprietary version of Windows. Now try seeing what happens if you run THAT through the "turn it into public domain" machine

Win-win outcome, no matter how it goes

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mathew

@cwebber I’ve been pondering this for a while. Another compelling use case would be speeding up reverse engineering of GPU drivers and other proprietary hardware blobs, because there would no longer be any need for true clean room work.