Quoting Richard Fontana

Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: WorkOS — Ready to sell to Enterprise clients? Build and ship securely with WorkOS. FWIW, IANDBL, TINLA, etc., I don’t currently see any basis for concluding that chardet 7.0.0 is required to be released under the LGPL. AFAIK no one including Mark Pilgrim has identified persistence of copyrightable expressive material from earlier versions in 7.0.0 nor has anyone articulated some viable alternate theory of license violation. [...] — Richard Fontana, LGPLv3 co-author, weighing in on the chardet relicensing situation Posted 27th March 2026 at 9:11 pm Recent articles Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun - 27th March 2026 Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills - 22nd March 2026 Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments - 21st March 2026 This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 27th March 2026. open-source 299 ai 1936 generative-ai 1717 llms 1683 ai-assisted-programming 367 ai-ethics 283 Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026