Why are all the rust projects MIT licensed? (monero.town)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by jack@monero.town to c/rust@lemmy.ml

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UPDATE: I found this issue explaining the relicensing of rust game engine Bevy to MIT + Apache 2.0 dual. Tldr: A lot of rust projects are MIT/Apache 2.0 so using those licenses is good for interoperability and upstreaming. MIT is known and trusted and had great success in projects like Godot.

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RedoxOS, uutils, zoxide, eza, ripgrep, fd, iced, orbtk,...

It really stands out considering that in FOSS software the GPL or at least the LGPL for toolkits is the most popular license

Most of the programs I listed are replacements for stuff we have in the Linux ecosystem, which are all licensed under the (L)GPL:

uutils, zoxide, eza, ripgrep, fd -> GNU coreutils (GPL)

iced, orbtk -> GTK, QT (LGPL)

RedoxOS -> Linux kernel, most desktop environments like GNOME, KDE etc. all licensed GPL as much as possible

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[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 11 months ago

It is, though. GPL forces all code using a GPL-licensed project to also be GPL-licensed. MIT is a cuck license allowing corporations to use your code for free without anything in return, the entire text of the MIT license could be replaced with "pls steal my code harder, daddy big corporation".

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

A "cuck" license? I have 0 interest in engaging in any meaningful conversation around "we live in a society and rigidity of value measurement cannot be without context" because thats childish at best and a dog whistle of the anti-intellectual at worst.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 points 11 months ago

I'm using cuck in the literal sense, not the MAGA fascist sense. Your code, someone else's profit. GPL or bust. If corporations want to use the features of a FOSS project without contributing their changes, they can fuck off and rewrite it from scratch.

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