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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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[–] bitfucker 17 points 1 week ago

No.

MIT : "Here is my project. Do whatever, I don't care. Just put my name in a credit somewhere."

GPL (assuming FSF stance on linking is used) : "Here is my project. Oh, you want to use my project and distribute your project that uses my project? Make your whole project open source too."

BSD-3 : "Here is my project. Credit me and do whatever but, don't use my name to promote your usage."

And many more nuances on other licenses like patents and whatnot. The problem is, the average person does not care to enforce it.