Comment by starkparker

Everyone armchair debating the licensing side of this frustrates discussion, because the only licensing discussion that matters is the one in front of a court. Until and unless one happens, this is just a boring hobby.

Otherwise all this rewrite accomplishes is a 2.3% accuracy improvement and some performance gains that might not be relevant in production, in exchange for a broken test suite, breaking changes, and unnecessary legal and ethical risks pushed out as an update to what was already a stable project.

If it's truly a sufficiently separate project that it can be relicensed from LGPL, then it could've just been _a fully separate project with a new identity_, and the license change would've been at least harder to challenge. Instead, we're here.