Comment by Orygin
5 months ago
Please don't use loaded terms like "infect". The license does not infect, it has provisions and requirements. If you want to interact with it, you either accept them or don't use the project. In this case, the author of v7 is trying to steal the copyrighted work of other authors by re-licensing it illegally.
Is their work present in v7?
Yes. The AI operator posted this as the prompt: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/commit/f51f523506a73f89f0...
which, minimally instructs it to directly examine the test suite: `4. High encoding accuracy on the chardet test suite`
So what? Is reading code the same as copying code or modifying existing code?
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Yes. Commits clearly show in progress where both LGPL and MIT code was working together. This clearly show they are a derivative work and MUST follow the original license.
Plus the argument put forth is that they can re-license the project. It's not a new one made from scratch.
So, if these commits were private and squashed together before 7.0 was published there would be no violation?
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Did they eventually remove/replace all the LGPL code?
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