AI-Assisted Library Rewriting and Relicensing Brings Open Source Software into the IP World of Open Source Hardware

A dispute about a python library called chardet may be an early rumble of an earthquake in the world of open source software (OSS) and intellectual property law. The incident exposes the potential fragility of the legal model underpinning OSS in the Large Language Model era. Suddenly, open source hardware (OSHW)’s experience creating open works without comprehensive IP protections could have many…