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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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[-] jack@monero.town 4 points 11 months ago

That doesn't explain the preference for MIT tho

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago

Mit is kind of the "I don't care and I don't want to think about it" license. I also suspect many will also just use the same license they see in other projects. So, if they've been using rust crates that are MIT, they're more likely to pick that. But who knows.

[-] jack@monero.town 3 points 11 months ago

That makes sense, it's probably easier to just use MIT instead of learning the differences between GPLv2, v3, AGPL, LGPL, MPL etc

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

Preference for MIT and Apache is part of the culture of rust. Also, the lead dev behind Redox has mentioned that he chose MIT over GPL because it makes it easier to contribute, which he felt was important for getting Redox off the ground.

[-] jack@monero.town 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Interesting, do you have a source for this? I found a comment of him saying it is because MIT is compatible with more free software

[-] Octorine@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

I think I remember reading it in the FAQ, but I can't find it now. It looks like the Redox book used to have a chapter called "why mit" but it's not there now.

[-] jack@monero.town 1 points 11 months ago

Alright, thanks for letting me know

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