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"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite
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Arthur Besse lemmy.ml cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2022-01-17
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for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.

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Paragone lemmy.world Paragone@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-06
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The AI-rewrite should be considered a derivative, & therefore subject to the parent-license, I believe.

Except that AI doesn't have any right to copyright, & therefore to licensing.

Which means that it's just an illegal derivative made by a tool.

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4am lemmy.zip 4am@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-23
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The AI-rewrite should be considered a derivative, & therefore subject to the parent-license, I believe. Except that AI doesn't have any right to copyright, & therefore to licensing. Which means that it's just an illegal derivative made by a tool. _ /\ _

Not sure why downvoted, this is the correct take

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DarkSirrush piefed.ca DarkSirrush@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Not sure why downvoted, this is the correct take

AI Bros are fucking wild.

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Paragone lemmy.world Paragone@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-06
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Not sure why downvoted, this is the correct take

"Not sure why downvoted"

Many find "me" unacceptable/offensive.

Downvoting me is fine: it makes them happy, & I don't value such "social-validation" delusion.

They're making the world be more the way they want!

Isn't that worth something?

Integrity's worth more to me than "friends", so human-"reality" & I are on divergant-paths..

My continuum/soul won't be getting caught in this-world again, if I succeed.

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