Can Coding Agents Relicense Open Source Through a ‘Clean Room’ Implementation of Code?

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By John GruberMar 8, 2026, 1:59 pm399 ptsTrendingTop
Simon Willison: There are a lot of open questions about this, both ethically and legally. These appear to be coming to a head in the venerable chardet Python library. chardet was created by Mark Pilgrim back in 2006 and released under the LGPL. Mark retired from public internet life in 2011 and chardet’s…

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