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You're ignoring the part where the maintainer demonstrated that version 7 isn't a relicense of LGPL work but a complete rewrite based on public domain research and algorithms. That…

Possibly they're "hell bent" on using the existing name because they've been using that name for their project in their github repository with their pip package that they've been s…

There is a certain irony here as well that this project was considered for actual community ownership by being added to the standard library, but it was decided that it was ineligi…

I think your metaphor is flawed though, firstly because we're not talking about the maintainer being a caretaker, for all intents and purposes they are the owner of chardet, just n…

A distinction should be made between ownership of the code and its copyright and ownership of the repository and associated distribution channels. As far as I know, there's no prec…

Further, while the copyright of the original code and its derivatives are still owned by the original author does that hold true to the rights to the name and package namespace? Su…