[vbarrielle]

Everyone writes as if he just fed the spec and tests to Claude Code. Ignoring for now that the tests are under LGPL as well, the commit history shows that this has been done with two weeks of steering Claude Code towards the desired output. At every one of these interactions, the maintainer used his deep knowledge of the chardet codebase to steer Claude.

[derangedHorse]

Is this perspective implying that the maintainer might be legally culpable because he, the *human*, was trained on the codebase?

[vbarrielle]

Well I'm implying that someone who's been reading a codebase for 10+ years is the worst person to claim an "independent reimplementation".