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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?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Thank you. That would explain why corporations use it (and the Apache license), however my guess is that most opensource projects aren't corporate. Do you maybe have a guess why non-corporations use MIT?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Do you maybe have a guess why non-corporations use MIT?

"Here's my project do what you want, or don't, with it I don't care"

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are you saying it's not a conscious choice? They're just going with what they consider to be the default and that happens to be MIT?

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

No.

MIT : "Here is my project. Do whatever, I don't care. Just put my name in a credit somewhere."

GPL (assuming FSF stance on linking is used) : "Here is my project. Oh, you want to use my project and distribute your project that uses my project? Make your whole project open source too."

BSD-3 : "Here is my project. Credit me and do whatever but, don't use my name to promote your usage."

And many more nuances on other licenses like patents and whatnot. The problem is, the average person does not care to enforce it.

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