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is there something about rust which precludes copyleft licensing? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by some@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] some@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

built in licensing

how's it built in?

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Rust crates manifest file requires a license be set to be hosted on crates.io and the example manifest file uses:

[package] 
license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"

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.

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