If it was indeed a full rewrite via AI, committing it to the same repo, with the same project name, only an incremented major version and a license change – seems to be an effort at co-opting the previous LGPL project’s name and visibility by the current maintainer and serves to erase (however large or small) the work of previous contributors.

Even if it truly is a ‘clean-room’ re-implementation, it should be called ‘chardet-ng’ or something to distinguish it from the original.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the potential problem wasn’t limited to the original chardet alone, regarding what might be affected by this rewrite allegedly having silently relicensed code…

Utterly insane to change the license and not realize it’s still a derivative product, especially when it has the same name!