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is there something about rust which precludes copyleft licensing?
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I think its just that the language having built in licensing is a newer concept as opposed to just having a companion document. And MIT and Apache are the licenses the pieces of the language is licensed under, so they made those default. That way it's a conscious decision to make it more restrictive.
how's it built in?
Rust crates manifest file requires a license be set to be hosted on crates.io and the example manifest file uses:
Something like the Java's jar manifest doesn't have a predefined license property for interpreters to parse. Maven has a property, but it's not required.