Although using the (non-vendored) chardet library is fine for requests itself, but using a LGPL dependency the story is a lot less clear for downstream projects, particularly ones that might like to bundle requests (and thus chardet) in to a single binary -- think something similar to what docker-compose is doing. By including an LGPL'd module it is no longer clear if the resulting artefact must also be LGPL'd. By changing out this dependency for one under MIT we remove all license ambiguity. As an "escape hatch" I have made the code so that it will use chardet first if it is installed, but we no longer depend upon it directly, although there is a new extra added, `requests[lgpl]`. This should minimize the impact to users, and give them an escape hatch if charset_normalizer turns out to be not as good. (In my non-exhaustive tests it detects the same encoding as chartdet in every case I threw at it) Co-authored-by: Jarek Potiuk <jarek@potiuk.com> Co-authored-by: Jarek Potiuk <jarek@potiuk.com>