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AI can rewrite open source code, but can it rewrite the license, too?

The release of a new version of chardet, an open source Python library, has highlighted legal and ethical issues surrounding AI's ability to rewrite open source code and its licenses.

read1 min views47 publishedJun 23, 2026

AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out legally, ethically, and practically. Those issues came to the forefront last week with the release of a new version of chardet, a popular open source python library for automatically detecting character encoding. The repository was originally written by coder Mark […]

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