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…

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30924455

A few people pointed out that many [R]ust 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?

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I don’t have any reason to think this is particular to Rust. The MIT license is popular because it’s permissive, simple, and well-known. Developers often choose it when they want to maximize a project’s reach.