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[Open question] Why are so many ~~rust~~ opensource projects MIT licensed? (opensource.org)

submitted 2 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev

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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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[–] nous@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

You would be surprised. A lot are written by people as part of their job or so they can use them for their job or being sponsored by a company to do the work. The people with the most time to contribute library code to rust are being paid to do it in one form or another.