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

  • nous@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    22 days ago

    People seem to forget that most of the open source language library code out there is written by people working for companies, being sponsored by companies or writing it so they can use it where they work. Some might start out as hobbiest projects but if it survives and grows it eventually will be sponsored in some form. Even if indirectly by some guy that wants to use it where he works.

    • idunnololz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      From what i understand if you wrote it you can just license the public version via GPL and license the private version that you wrote for your job what ever you want since you own it.

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

      • bpev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        You can always use your own code however you want. However, if your project starts to get contributions from other people, that’s where it can start to become more muddy.

      • nous@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        The company you work for will likely not like that. Needs a special case license to be drawn up would probably need to involve lawyers and cost far more then is worth the hassle. Vastly easier just to give it a MIT license.