98
"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/technology@lemmy.ml
53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967

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

HN comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

That's... The point of the GPL licenses, to preserve copyleft. I also prefer the simplicity of the MIT license for my own works, but I respect the copyleft ideals.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    If it's all your own work then a license is purely for others to follow. MIT and GPL license can be just as simple as including a textfile of that license in the project.

    Ideally one includes a header in each code file to ensure people just looking at that file (without project context) know the license.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent