I often see Rust mentioned at the same time as MIT-type licenses.

Is it just a cultural thing that people who write Rust dislike Libre copyleft licenses? Or is it baked in to the language somehow?

Edit: It has been pointed out that I meant to say “copyleft”, not “libre”, so edited the title and body likewise.

  • enemenemu@lemm.ee
    62·
    13 days ago

    You could say that, yes.

    It makes sense to suggest MIT license for a MIT project

    MIT is better than proprietary. MIT does not force you to not make your project free.

      • enemenemu@lemm.ee
        4·
        13 days ago

        I am no dev of rust.

        My guess:

        • they didn’t want to scare anyone.
        • They really think that MIT is free and that anyone shall do with it whatever they like. They are not afraid that someone takes the rust code base and produces a proprietary fork and make money from it.