I often see Rust mentioned at the same time as MIT-type licenses.

Is it just a cultural thing that people who write Rust dislike Libre copyleft licenses? Or is it baked in to the language somehow?

Edit: It has been pointed out that I meant to say “copyleft”, not “libre”, so edited the title and body likewise.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    5 days ago

    Rust crates manifest file requires a license be set to be hosted on crates.io and the example manifest file uses:

    [package] 
license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"

    Something like the Java’s jar manifest doesn’t have a predefined license property for interpreters to parse. Maven has a property, but it’s not required.