Chardlet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

The Register
Mar 5, 2026, 8:00 pm196 ptsTrendingTop
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license.…

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