If you are following the #chardet storm, an even bigger one than the anti Free Software package management legislation from California, Colorado, and Illinois, this is the next place to visit:

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Predictably, there are a lot of people on other fora following along here and yet still missing the part where a LLM that was likely trained not only on LGPL code but also a lot of actually not #FreeSoftware code that could be scraped from various sources, was used to generate code that was then declared MIT licenced.

#CopyLeft #LLMs #VibeCoding #CopyrightLaw

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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@JdeBP why would you contribute to anything if some AI-bro might come along, rewrite, relicence and claim it as theirs.

I suppuwhat this case needs is a court trial with copyright lawyers weighing in.

God I hate AI but I think I hate the AI-apologists more.