FOSSDLE PieFed"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite
submitted by
Arthur Bessegithub.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059976
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967
for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527
The AI-rewrite should be considered a derivative, & therefore subject to the parent-license, I believe.
Except that AI doesn't have any right to copyright, & therefore to licensing.
Which means that it's just an illegal derivative made by a tool.
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Not sure why downvoted, this is the correct take
AI Bros are fucking wild.