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This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
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chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet
Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

omg it's Mark Pilgrim 😮 https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

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...

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Here's the thing (wrt chardet).
The "clean room" statement is weakened by putting the new "independent" code in the same git repo/tree. I do think that this does imply a level of dependency/relationship that goes beyond pattern matching strings.
He didn't generate chardet-ng or rename the old version "chardet-legacy" and created a new repo for the claude version. I do think that that as a form of communication/statement matters.

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— sparking fresh insider-trading suspicions.
This underscores exactly why we flagged #prediction #markets

The Lever (@levernews.com)
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