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