Who are you talking about? I can't find reference to this person.

He is the maintainer of chardet. The main topic of the article is the whole LGPL to MIT rewrite and relicense done by this person.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

There were two other posts about this today on the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177