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 threadhobataMar 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.
Show threadsacredbirdman
One of the more “interesting” additional aspects is that courts have decided that works of generative models are not copyrightable… so one can’t license them either.
Mar 6 at 5:51pmWeb