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yeah, like, supposedly it can be hard to use GPL with some rust dependencies, but the MPL is right there as a decent compromise.
I like and use rust, and I actively try to use permissive licenses for libraries and copy left for binaries. Just makes sense in my head.
how can it be hard? permissive licenses are compatible to the GPL, the opposite not though
Static linking makes things difficult. I'm not sure what the details are, that's just what I've heard from Rust developers.
Because of static linking, a single GPL dependency turns the entire resulting binary into a GPL licensed one, so yeah just use something like the MPL in that case (Or EUPL, which I hear is similar)
LGPL has the same issue, since it only provides an exception for dynamic linking. But honestly that's all an issue for lawyers and judges to sort out (I bet you could win in court with an argument that dynamically linking to GPL is actually fine).