Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Dan Blanchard released version 7.0 of chardet, a Python library for detecting text encodings, which is now 48 times faster and supports multiple cores. The library's license has changed from LGPL to MIT, with Anthropic's Claude listed as a contributor.
writings.hongminhee.org
11 min
3/9/2026
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Dan Blanchard released version 7.0 of chardet, a Python library for detecting text encodings, which is now 48 times faster and supports multiple cores. The library's license has changed from LGPL to MIT, with Anthropic's Claude listed as a contributor.
writings.hongminhee.org
11 min
3/9/2026
Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Dan Blanchard released version 7.0 of chardet, a Python library for detecting text encodings, which is now 48 times faster and supports multiple cores. The library's license has changed from LGPL to MIT, with Anthropic's Claude listed as a contributor.
writings.hongminhee.org
11 min
3/9/2026
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