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This seems relevant: "No right to relicense this project (github.com/chardet)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

• shevy-java 8mo ago
  That's another project though, right? In this case I think it is different because that project just seems stolen. The courts can probably verify this too. I think the main question is when a rewrite is a clean rewrite, via AI. If it is a clean rewrite they can choose any licence.
  • littlestymaar 8mo ago
    No, TFA is about chardet too: > chardet , a Python character encoding detector used by requests and many others, has sat in that tension for years: as a port of Mozilla’s C++ code it was bound to the LGPL, making it a gray area for corporate users and a headache for its most famous consumer.