[$] The relicensing of chardet

Chardetis a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was usedto encode a text string. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim, who isalso the author of a number of Python books; the 1.0 release happened in2006. For many years, this module has been under the maintainership ofDan Blanchard. Chardet has always been licensed under the LGPL, but, withthe 7.0.0release, Blanchard changed the terms to the permissive MIT license.That has led to an extensive (and ongoing) discussion on when code can berelicensed against the wishes of its original author, and whether using alarge language model to rewrite code is a legitimate way to strip copyleftrequirements from code.