[sombragris]

I'm firmly in favor of copyleft. But I get what chardet's maintainer has done: reimplement a piece of software. This has been done a lot of times. Musl reimplementing glibc, llvm reimplementing gcc, etc., all of them with non-copyleft licenses.

However, the purported reimplementations did not usurp the names of the reimplemented product. Reimplement chardet using AI and insisting in calling the product the same as old chardet with a new version number and a new license is, I think, not exactly honest. At least he should have used something like "chardet-ng", "chardet-fresh", or whatever, and a completely different source tree.