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License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room (The Chardet Saga) (shiftmag.dev)
6 points by allixsenos 97 days ago
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How is no one noticing that the whole release-a-rewritten-codebase-under-a-permissive-license has happened before, with BSD Unix? This methodology predates clean-room rewrites.