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		red_admiral 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No right to relicense this project I think they moved chardet from GPL to MIT? If the maintainer made future versions proprietery, they'd surely be forked and then kicked out of the python package repo?

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pocksuppet 5 days ago [–]

That's what MIT does. It lets downstream versions become proprietary.

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