The most popular licenses for each language in 2023 – Open Source Initiative
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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?

  • popcar2@programming.devEnglish
    161·
    23 days ago

    MIT is the de-facto license that says “Do what you want with the software, just give me credit. Also, I don’t owe you anything”.

    It lets people do basically anything with it but protects you from:

    • People who would steal your project and claim they were the original creators (your name and copyright info is filled in the license which they have to include and mention)

    • Any sort of liability or warranty - people can’t blame you for any damage done by your software