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yep, "has changed to a significant degree" is what I was trying to cover by "sufficiently different"
I'm not a lawyer either, but I like learning about legal details, especially copyright. As far as I understand, it isn't very well defined how much source code needs to change to be considered a separate work. This question might not be answered at all until someone goes to court over similar questions (at a sufficiently high level), or there are laws about this.
And this is only for the US's copyright system, but I definitely do not understand how US copyright and other countries copyrights intersect, so I am not going to try to speculate at all
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Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?@hannah@moonserver.yorha.nexus @Foxboron@chaos.social well, it would be public domain (by current rulings in the US) if the newer version is sufficiently different from the original LGPL to not be covered under that copyright
Very "funny" to license a repo as MIT when it is potentially either LGPL or public domain