US EditionChardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing
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Python 'Chardet' Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed
Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: The maintainers of the Python package `chardet`, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 this week, claiming a speedup factor of 43x over version 6. In the release notes, the maintainers claim that version 7 is, "a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet." Problem: The putative "ground-up rewrite" is actually the result of running the e…
The developer Dan Blanchard used Claude d'Anthropic to rewrite fully chardet, a Python library downloaded 130 million times a month, and to pass his LGPL license to MIT. The original author contests, the Free Software Foundation denounces, and Bruce Perens, father of the open source definition, declares that "the entire economy of software is dead." Definitely. Five days and a Chardet license change is a tool that detects character encoding in a…
Chardlet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. . . .
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