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Screenshot of writings.hongminhee.org: Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.

copyleft lgpl chardet ai-reimplementation

Screenshot of github.com: No right to relicense this project

No right to relicense this project (github.com)

412 points by robin_reala 7 months ago | 271 comments

GitHub issue by Mark Pilgrim, original author of chardet, objecting that maintainers have no right to relicense the LGPL project in release 7.0.0.

chardet lgpl software-licensing relicensing

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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

No right to relicense this project(github.com)

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (writings.hongminhee.org)

No right to relicense this project (github.com)