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[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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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

Don't GNU, MPL, EUPL, and other opensource licenses do the same? Why is MIT favoured?

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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

those are less permissive. mit license says "you want to make a new version and sell it? go ahead! be my guest" think of it as being the apache license with fewer words

[-] hitwright@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

You can sell GPL software, even without any changes. The less permission part would be "You want to close-source it and not contribute back? Go ahead!"

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 1 month ago

GPL forces those who fork the project to open-source their contributions; same for MPL though GPL requires open-sourcing more things. EUPL is a bit obscure.

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