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The relicensing of chardet [LWN.net]
Chardet is a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was used to encode a [...]
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Mar 5, 2026 - :shield: Chardet’s AI Rewrite Just Broke Open Source Licensing — 138M Monthly Downloads in Limbo Someone fed an LGPL library into Claude Code, slapped an MIT...
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