Arthur BesseMar 5

"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]

Show threadGoodlucksilMar 5
Isn’t the LGPL supposed to be relicensable as opposed to GPL’s share-alike?
Show threadhobataMar 5
nope, here *GPL acts like cancer, once it touches something, it remains *GPL until the last bit of it is still there.
Show threadtabularMar 5
Cancer is a bad analogy. It’s more like antibodies against non-free bactetia :)
Show threadhobataMar 5
I have a completely different view of what free means. xGPL are restrictive and sticky.
Show threadtabular
The freedom to deny others the same freedom?
Mar 6 at 8:17amWeb