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?

    • bitfucker
      181·
      4 days 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.

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      171·
      5 days ago

      I don’t think that’s what they’re saying.

      MIT license is more permissive than other open source licenses. That’s intentional. The authors want anyone to use their code anyway they like—open, closed, whatever.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      71·
      5 days ago

      No, but they want to have the most permissive license so that anyone with interest in it can take and use it, without having to worry about licenses.