Wandering Adventure Party

@xgebi @janl I would love it if a prior contributor were supported in bringing about a legal challenge. The outcome should either reinforce copyleft, or show that the movement needs to move to far more radical methods.

I also think end users and past contributors of chardet are being actively cheated here. This is a new project masquerading as continuity. This actively erases all pre-7 contibutions and authorship to an LGPL codebase, and shouldn’t even be pretending to be a new release of the same library.

How is this not just vandalism, I do not know.

Using LLM backed codegen to falsely relicense from copyleft licensing like LGPL to anything resembling MIT/BSD style licensing isn't just laundering code - it's an active attack on the labour aspect of the free software movement. It is an attempt to undo forcing cooperation by using the existing copyright system, subverting the very commons which they plundered to create these tools.

This is why playing by the rules rarely gets you change.