Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's "chardet" library, used Claude to rewrite the entire project's codebase so that he can switch the license from LGPL to MIT.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322
I highly doubt that this is legal, but who the fuck cares these days anyway, right?
If I was a contributor to that project, I'd tell him in no vague words what I think about shit like that. "No bro, it's totally not relicensing your code bro, this is totally new code bro!"
via https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271
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