Original chardet author disputes maintainers' relicensing claim as LGPL violation

Summary

Mark Pilgrim, original author of the chardet library, disputes the maintainers' claim that they have the right to relicense the project in version 7.0.0. He argues that relicensing violates the LGPL license under which the code was originally released, stating that modified LGPL-licensed code must remain under the same license. Pilgrim acknowledges the project's success as Free Software but asserts the maintainers lack authority to change the licensing terms.