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Unicode detection is the kind of utility the language maintainers want in their package collection if not in the standard library, and programmers who have to d
by red_admiral 8mo ago
Unicode detection is the kind of utility the language maintainers want in their package collection if not in the standard library, and programmers who have to do anything with "plain text" files might want to rely on.
Releasing a core library like this under a genuinely free licence (MIT) is a service to anyone working in the ecosystem.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoMaybe. Enabling more GPL software to become proprietary isn't exactly a service.
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- red_admiral 8mo agoI think they moved chardet from GPL to MIT? If the maintainer made future versions proprietery, they'd surely be forked and then kicked out of the python package repo?
- pocksuppet 8mo agoThat's what MIT does. It lets downstream versions become proprietary.