"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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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059976

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967

for those not familiar with 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

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Even more ridiculous when they vibe code to do it

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Anything "vibe coded" is almost certainly stealing GPL code. Not like the industry hasn't been doing that for years, but now they don't even need to hire engineers to steal the code, they just close their eyes and pretend it's all their own.

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