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

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks 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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Relicense it as GPL and see how little they care what you do with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What a stupid argument, that's literally only thing the license asks, is to keep the original license and not sue them because you shot at your own dick.

It doesn't change in any way or form how you can use the software though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't it to keep the copyright notice and not the license itself? I.e, you may redistribute it with a different license term and conditions but the copyright notice must be retained. I don't know how different it is tho in legal speak. Maybe they are equivalent.

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