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Why are all the rust projects MIT licensed? (monero.town)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by jack@monero.town to c/rust@lemmy.ml
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UPDATE: I found this issue explaining the relicensing of rust game engine Bevy to MIT + Apache 2.0 dual. Tldr: A lot of rust projects are MIT/Apache 2.0 so using those licenses is good for interoperability and upstreaming. MIT is known and trusted and had great success in projects like Godot.

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RedoxOS, uutils, zoxide, eza, ripgrep, fd, iced, orbtk,...

It really stands out considering that in FOSS software the GPL or at least the LGPL for toolkits is the most popular license

Most of the programs I listed are replacements for stuff we have in the Linux ecosystem, which are all licensed under the (L)GPL:

uutils, zoxide, eza, ripgrep, fd -> GNU coreutils (GPL)

iced, orbtk -> GTK, QT (LGPL)

RedoxOS -> Linux kernel, most desktop environments like GNOME, KDE etc. all licensed GPL as much as possible

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[-] snowe@programming.dev 20 points 11 months ago

I have never heard anyone claim that GPL or LGPL are the most popular licenses for tools. From what I’ve seen it’s the opposite. MIT is by far the most popular by an insane margin. So much so that when I see an lgpl license I’m surprised.

[-] jack@monero.town 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Most of the rust projects I listed are replacements for stuff in the Linux ecosystem which are licensed (L)GPL. The most popular toolkits by far are GTK and QT, both LGPL

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 6 points 11 months ago

GPL was the most popular at one point. MIT overtook it around the turn of the century, I think.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

for tools

For GNU/Linux tools?

[-] snowe@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago

ok, that I can understand, if they're only considering "tools" to be those on lgpl systems themselves.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Firstly, GNU/Linux systems aren't just "lgpl" systems. Secondly, out of curiosity what were you considering "tools" to be?

[-] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Anything you use on your computer to help you complete a job. Docker, ripgrep, IntelliJ, graalvm, javac, cargo, Zulip, etc. Thinking that tools are just contained to be what comes bundled with your os is a weird take to me.

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