this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
1 points (100.0% liked)

Rust Programming

8074 readers
2 users here now

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

UPDATE: I found this issue explaining the relicensing of rust game engine Bevy to MIT + Apache 2.0 dual. Tldr: A lot of rust projects are MIT/Apache 2.0 so using those licenses is good for interoperability and upstreaming. MIT is known and trusted and had great success in projects like Godot.

ORIGINAL POST:

RedoxOS, uutils, zoxide, eza, ripgrep, fd, iced, orbtk,...

It really stands out considering that in FOSS software the GPL or at least the LGPL for toolkits is the most popular license

Most of the programs I listed are replacements for stuff we have in the Linux ecosystem, which are all licensed under the (L)GPL:

uutils, zoxide, eza, ripgrep, fd -> GNU coreutils (GPL)

iced, orbtk -> GTK, QT (LGPL)

RedoxOS -> Linux kernel, most desktop environments like GNOME, KDE etc. all licensed GPL as much as possible

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so making a library gpl means users will be forced to make their project GPL too

So GPL libraries have an incredible advantage.

[โ€“] calcopiritus@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

GPL libraries have an advantage in their legal power. MIT libraries have an advantage when users have to choose between 2 libraries.

All other things being equal, users will use more permissive libraries. So unless maintainers put more effort into the GPL, a MIT one will gather more users, which attracts more maintainers, which ends up in more MIT libraries than GPL ones existing.