is there something about rust which precludes copyleft licensing? (programming.dev)

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I often see Rust mentioned at the same time as MIT-type licenses.

Is it just a cultural thing that people who write Rust dislike ~~Libre~~ copyleft licenses? Or is it baked in to the language somehow?

Edit: It has been pointed out that I meant to say "copyleft", not "libre", so edited the title and body likewise.

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[-] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 6 days ago

I'm a (mediocre) Rust dev, and I use GPL licenses for my projects. There's nothing preventing you from doing so. I think the answer to your question is that it's largely cultural.

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