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

submitted 4 months 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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[-] bitfucker@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

Not really, you can charge for GPL software, but you must always provide the source and anyone may redistribute those

this post was submitted on 24 May 2025

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