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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[-] anlumo@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

The GNU project emerged from academics, which don’t get paid for their software in general, they get paid for writing papers about it. So, they want to stop all commercial use of their software.

The Rust project emerged from the startup culture, where everything is just a stepping stone to eventually get sold in some kind of software project to get rich. So, being able to use the software in a commercial setting is essential.

[-] jack@monero.town 9 points 11 months ago

What's your source for this "startup culture"? Rust started at Mozilla to make the browser more secure

[-] anlumo@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

I'm talking about culture, not specific companies. Of course, this is a very subjective observation.

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