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?

  • vala@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 days ago

    Relicense it as GPL and see how little they care what you do with it.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      What a stupid argument, that’s literally only thing the license asks, is to keep the original license and not sue them because you shot at your own dick.

      It doesn’t change in any way or form how you can use the software though

      • bitfucker@programming.dev
        3·
        1 day ago

        Isn’t it to keep the copyright notice and not the license itself? I.e, you may redistribute it with a different license term and conditions but the copyright notice must be retained. I don’t know how different it is tho in legal speak. Maybe they are equivalent.