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?

  • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    It’s an easy license to reason about, allows for basically any project to use it, and you don’t need to worry about trying to enforce it (Because the GPL is only as good as your lawyers are)

    • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      There’s a GPL compliance lawsuit going on where they’re suing as a user under contract law, instead of as the copyright holder. Perhaps you can say the GPL is as good as anyone’s lawyers, in the near future.