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In large part it's a matter of opinions and different perspectives. A common consensus is libraries should be MIT and entire applications should be GPL. However, this is not held by all community members.
Overall, Rust is easier to read and harder to fuck up, so there's one argument in favour if it, in terms of community engagement. For an example of this, compare
ls.cby Apple, GNU, FreeBSd and OpenBSD.On the other hand, I should imagine most people simply install ripgrep and fd anyway.