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

Mar 6, 2026
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

<h4>Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk</h4> <p>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.…</p>