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Chardet Library Relicensing Dispute Over Clean Room Rewrite
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The chardet open source library relicensed from LGPL to MIT two days ago thanks to a Claude Code assisted "clean room" rewrite - but original author Mark Pilgrim is disputing that the way this was done justifies the change in license - my notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/cha…
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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
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