#991952 chardet test suite has problematic license

Package:
src:chardet
Source:
chardet
Submitter:
Gernot Hillier
Date:
2026-03-06 13:19:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#991952#5
Date:
2021-08-06 14:49:34 UTC
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During licensing checks of the "chardet" sources, we identified
problematic files in tests/. In general, tests/README.txt states:

[...]
These test feeds were downloaded from random sites while I was
developing the Universal Encoding Detector. Each feed is copyright its
respective publisher.
[...]

It doesn't seem these files are included in the `python3-chardet` Debian
binary package, but they are still distributed by Debian as part of
http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chardet/chardet_4.0.0.orig.tar.gz.
#991952#10
Date:
2021-08-06 15:38:08 UTC
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I also filed an upstream bug on this:
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/231
#991952#19
Date:
2026-03-06 13:16:25 UTC
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The test files are excluded in 5.1.0+dfsg-1. I believe this bug can be
closed.

As a note, the upstream claimed that this issue has been resolved in
version 7.0.0 by the controversal "rewrite by LLM".
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322