"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite (github.com)

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for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.

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[-] ell1e@leminal.space 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if the potential problem wasn't limited to the original chardet alone, regarding what might be affected by this rewrite allegedly having silently relicensed code...

this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026

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