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No right to relicense this project

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Hacker News | Mar 5, 2026 | robin_reala

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You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector. " I am the original author of chardet. Licensed code, when modified, must be released under the same LGPL license. I respectfully insist that they revert the project to its original license.

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