Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?

[foxboron@chaos.social]

@xgranade
They have been the upstream maintainer for years, so I don't see any huge issue with that.

I would have done the same probably?

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@Foxboron Posted an unkind reply and deleted, sorry. I'm getting frustrated with the whole AI thing today, and I'm not being my best self. I should probably just step offline for a bit.

This is just so... frustrating.

[jti42@infosec.exchange]

@Foxboron @scy@chaos.social That'd be the US system. Then there's the various Euro systems that differ substantially. I'm certainly curious how this will turn out.

On the other hand: it'd require that those who can enforce their rights here actually do so.
Given that IP rights are normally enforced pretty harshly, even on consumers (anyone remember the days of the torrent c&d letters or the traditional find&ban the infringing exhibitor days on computex et al?) they're effectively completely ignored on FOSS.
There is virtually no education for biz, cs or law students on this topic, let alone mandatory ed.

Presenting the case of possibilities and rights to those who have them is often dismissed by those, especially developers on the younger side or those who are still in a "hobby" / "non commercial" stage. Only to shortly after complain about sustainability and demanding funding.

Instead we see demands to throw substantial amounts of tax money after random Foss projects on more or less random criteria and evaluators. Which will totally scale, right?

Virtually every company that was enforced against in terms of FOSS compliance ended up consciously allocating resources to FOSS in various ways. There are a lot of companies and they are a renewable resource in a functional economy.

But what do I know, rite? I just see the cases.
/rant

[jti42@infosec.exchange]

@Foxboron today's new term "code laundering" I'll keep that one 😆

[foxboron@chaos.social]

@xgranade
Yes.

But lets not clutch pearls over how a understaffed FOSS project decides to merge their work.