A recent, relevant development: maintainers of the "chardet" python package took LGPL-licensed chardet 6.0, ran an LLM over it to "fully rewrite it" (clearly not a cleanroom reimplementation) and released the resulting slop as chardet 7.0 under the MIT - I think this is a blatant copyright violation, and the original author of chardet is opposed to this.
This reinvigorates my stance that having an LLM spit something out doesn't grant you copyright over it, whether or not it is clear what the LLM was plagiarising. python-chardet 5 is packaged in guix, so in the long run we will have to figure out what to do about it - if at all possible, i think it would be good to never update to 7.0, or to use a fork (if one ever pops up) For more context, see https://tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/
