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?

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This assumes you wrote the project without company tools and on your free time.

    Even then. some employment contracts try to take the piss and claim ownership of anything you produce while you’re employed. Clauses like that are unenforceable in many jurisdictions, but I’ve taken the liberty of redlining them before signing the contract. That means another half-day wating for Legal to look at it, but it’s worth it for the removal of ambiguity about what I intend to do. By the way, I’ve never had an offer withdrawn for doing that.