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?

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    those are less permissive. mit license says “you want to make a new version and sell it? go ahead! be my guest” think of it as being the apache license with fewer words

    • hitwright@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You can sell GPL software, even without any changes. The less permission part would be “You want to close-source it and not contribute back? Go ahead!”