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by Hamuko 104 days ago
>Or GPL. Which I’m increasingly thinking is the only license. It requires sharing.

It doesn't if Dan Blanchard spends some tokens on it and then licenses the output as MIT.
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jmalicki 104 days ago
Who are you talking about? I can't find reference to this person.
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kccqzy 104 days ago
He is the maintainer of chardet. The main topic of the article is the whole LGPL to MIT rewrite and relicense done by this person.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

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Aeolun 103 days ago
I think the “I maintained this thing for 12 years” weighs a lot heavier than the “and then I even went through the trouble of reimplementing it” before changing it to a license that is more open. Seriously…
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badc0ffee 104 days ago
There were two other posts about this today on the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177

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