Mastodawn

I missed the absurd chardet license change story. 🫠

BTW I would pin chardet <7 and avoid using the relicensed version if you want to avoid issues. ⚠️

Quoting Madison Taylor from Nvidia:
"Given the existence of issue #327 chardet v7.0.0 is absolutely toxic." https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/331

#Python #Chardet #License #Version

v7.0.0 presents unacceptable legal risk to users due to copyright controversy · Issue #331 · chardet/chardet

Hiiiiii. I'm just a random user at a big company. I don't have legal advice, and I don't even have moral advice. I have opinions (that do not represent those of my employer NVIDIA Corporation). Som...

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Jeff Triplett Mar 9

@paulox As user, I don't see any legal risk there.

I think it was badform to not rename the project. v7 could have just as easily used the new renamed project and incurred much less rath, but here we are.

Do you use chardet directly? I know a bunch of libraries to, but I have never used it directly.

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Jeff Triplett

@paulox I wonder how many of those libraries are considering other options as a result of the relicense, vibe code a new one?