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>Or GPL. Which I’m increasingly thinking is the only license. It requires sharing. It doesn't if Dan Blanchard spends some tokens on it and then licenses the o
by Hamuko 7mo ago
>Or GPL. Which I’m increasingly thinking is the only license. It requires sharing.
It doesn't if Dan Blanchard spends some tokens on it and then licenses the output as MIT.
- jmalicki 7mo agoWho are you talking about? I can't find reference to this person.
- kccqzy 7mo agoHe is the maintainer of chardet. The main topic of the article is the whole LGPL to MIT rewrite and relicense done by this person. https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0
- Aeolun 7mo agoI think the “I maintained this thing for 12 years” weighs a lot heavier than the “and then I even went through the trouble of reimplementing it” before changing it to a license that is more open. Seriously…
- badc0ffee 7mo agoThere were two other posts about this today on the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177