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

submitted 1 month ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 56 points 1 month ago

MIT allows the publication of derived work to be closed source, GPL doesn't. Thus, at least for corporations, it is an advantage to publish some code, e.g. libraries with MIT licence, so that it can become a commonly used "standard implementation", while their end user software remains closed source.

[-] TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 32 points 1 month ago

This is why i like publishing under LGPL, people can still use it in proprietary software but the library itself is better protected.

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