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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/technology@lemmy.ml
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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

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[–] 1 point 7 months ago

You don't need it to be unanimous, but if it's not unanimous, you have to rewrite the parts from people who refused or can't be contacted. If their sum contributions aren't too big, it can be feasible but a lot of work. If too many or if key contributors refuse, the work can scale exponentially.

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