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Who are you talking about? I can't find reference to this person.

He is the maintainer of chardet. The main topic of the article is the whole LGPL to MIT rewrite and relicense done by this person.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

I think the “I maintained this thing for 12 years” weighs a lot heavier than the “and then I even went through the trouble of reimplementing it” before changing it to a license that is more open. Seriously…

There were two other posts about this today on the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177

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