I left a comment to that effect here https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005721071
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omg I am just seeing now that the dude who did the "AI relicensing" fucking replied with an obvious slop response, of all the fucking disrespectful things to do, holy fucking shit https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078
But really, relicensing a GPL codebase to MIT is uninteresting.
Let's do the interesting one, which is: vibe code a "clean room" reimplementation of an entire proprietary codebase! After all, Microsoft released a "shared source" proprietary version of Windows. Now try seeing what happens if you run THAT through the "turn it into public domain" machine
Win-win outcome, no matter how it goes
Winning option 1: yes, you can vibe code proprietary codebases into the public domain, allowing us to bootstrap proprietary codebases quickly
Winning option 2: stopping laundering of copyleft codebases
Either of these are interesting outcomes!
A new twist in the "AI license laundering of chardet" story https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327