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?

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    All my shit is MIT because I don’t seriously respect copyright in the first place.

    I understand GPL for big-ass projects which expect new contributions to help stone-soup their way to higher quality… but fucking Blender is permissively licensed. Godot is permissively licensed. If your thing matters enough for someone to steal it, you’re probably doing fine with voluntary contributions back to the original project.

    And that’s for whole products. Libraries and shit? Yeah, obviously permissive is preferable. I don’t want to have to change how I license some code based on someone else’s solution, and I’m a fucking nobody. Commercial projects aren’t even looking at anything pushier than LGPL. And that’s fine! Anything proprietary and important is on borrowed time if they’re even thinking about open-source. Either they’re not making enough to just do shit themselves, or the aggressively open alternatives are roughly as good as all their money could afford.

    The slow victory of open source is that it’s really goddamn difficult to compete with free.