Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering Those issues came to the forefront last week with the release of a new version of chardet , a popular open source python library for automatically detecting character encoding. The repository was originally written by coder Mark Pilgrim in 2006 and released under an LGPL license that placed strict limits on how it could be reused and redistributed. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 but waded...
