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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by jack@monero.town to c/rust@lemmy.ml

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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[-] 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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