Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?

[jti42@infosec.exchange]

@Foxboron today's new term "code laundering" I'll keep that one

[foxboron@chaos.social]

@xgranade
Yes.

But lets not clutch pearls over how a understaffed FOSS project decides to merge their work.

[kekunplazas@mamot.fr]

@Foxboron @scy So it's not copyrightable, what are they using to apply the MIT license if not their copyright‽ That makes no sense to me. (I'm reacting to you but to what you shared, to be clear.)

[wolfcoder@lagopine.lgbt]

@Foxboron more like laundered without emptying the lint trap, can't imagine the bugs and vulns a whole AI re-write would do.

[foxboron@chaos.social]

Seems like the original author saw this as well.

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank the current maintainers and everyone wh...

GitHub (github.com)

Please do not brigade the project.

[orca@nya.one]

@Foxboron@chaos.social

Rewrite the entire codebase

Argh I can see a disaster coming

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@Foxboron @xgranade If it was solely his work, he could just change the license. He didn't do that - he felt he had to AI-wash it. That suggests there is in fact other people's work in there that he's trying to AI-wash away their copyright.

[foxboron@chaos.social]

@davidgerard @xgranade

I'm just making a claim that we can't fault people for how they on their pull requests work.

For the point you are raising see this issue from 13 years ago.

Changing license · Issue #36 · chardet/chardet

This feels strange to be posing as a question, since I'm one of the co-maintainers, but @sigmavirus24 and @erikrose, do you know if it's okay/legal for us to change the license of chardet? Because it was started by Mark Pilgrim I feel li...

GitHub (github.com)

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@Foxboron @xgranade right, confirming the issue I raised.

[njsg@mementomori.social]

@Foxboron [grabs cp(1) code from some implementation]
[compiles but installs it as cp.ai]
[chardet-fork: release 1.0: AI-based ground-up rewrite of chardet, public domain]