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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 (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527

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[–] 39 points 7 months ago (3 children)

US courts have already ruled that AI generated works cannot be copyrighted, so yeah, if you vibecode something, it is not yours to license.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. Relicensing it to MIT is really weird. Should either be Public Domain, or LGPL 😁

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