Thomas Claburn / The register:
The AI-assisted redesign of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software licensing and derivative versions of the original.— Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licenses are also under threat — Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard…
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