The most popular licenses for each language in 2023
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The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that…

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?

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      235·
      3 days ago

      those are less permissive. mit license says “you want to make a new version and sell it? go ahead! be my guest” think of it as being the apache license with fewer words

      • hitwright@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 days ago

        You can sell GPL software, even without any changes. The less permission part would be “You want to close-source it and not contribute back? Go ahead!”

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      9·
      3 days ago

      GPL forces those who fork the project to open-source their contributions; same for MPL though GPL requires open-sourcing more things. EUPL is a bit obscure.