The most popular licenses for each language in 2023
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The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that…

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?

  • nous@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    This is not a rust thing. Most popular languages with a library distribution system favour permissive licence like MIT Apache 2.0 or BSD or similar.

    More mainstream languages are that way because cooperations use them - most people learn a d use the language that will get them a job or the ones used by where they work. And if the language it tooling and libraries where not permissive they would likely not be allowed to be used in a lot of companies.

    And most of the libraries written for languages these days are done by people paid to do it, either directly by being hired or sponsored to do so or so they can be used when they are at work. The GPL would basically not allow the vast number of people who are writing code from using the library.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Standard libraries…sure, but I think OP is talking about general projects.