According to Adafruit, AI coding tools are surfacing new questions about how open-source licensing works when AI rewrites code in a clean room—generating fresh code rather than copying. The issue came to the forefront with a new version of chardet, a popular Python library for automatically detecting character encoding, raising the question of whether original license obligations follow an AI rewrite.

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