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[Open question] Why are so many ~~rust~~ opensource projects MIT licensed? (opensource.org)

submitted 1 week ago by onlinepersona to c/opensource

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A few people pointed out that many rust projects were MIT licensed and since then I indeed have seen MIT licensed projects everywhere in Rust. Then I found the link of this post and it looks like MIT was by far the most popular license in all of opensource in 2023.

Any ideas why?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rust community cares more about the spread of rust than the long term user freedom problem that the GPL/AGPL solves.

[–] onlinepersona 5 points 1 week ago

If you click the link, you'll see that Rust projects are no exception in their use of MIT. Do you believe other programming language communities also just care about spreading?

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