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"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)

submitted 13 hours ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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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[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Utterly insane to change the license and not realize it's still a derivative product, especially when it has the same name!