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[Open question] Why are so many rust opensource projects MIT licensed?

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[Open question] Why are so many rust opensource projects MIT licensed?

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The most popular licenses for each language in 2023

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?

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Obligatory link to https://choosealicense.com/ - which gives some guidance and overview of license differences

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