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2026-09-15 21:43 UTC

This is not about defending corporations. It doesn’t matter who does that, I don’t think writing new tools with a different license is bad. My opinion has nothing to do about who does that, if communities, or corporations. I think having tools in a different language than C, especially something like Rust, is a good thing. Anyone who writes Rust code can read, adapt and make changes to it. And for licensing, GPL can be problematic in some cases that is not compatible with every license. Therefore having an alternative in MIT license is a good thing. Even if it ends up being in a proprietary program, its still better than not able to use the code. The old GPL code is still maintained independently.

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  • @Azazel@lemmy.ml 2026-09-15 23:10

    I actually an agree an independent rust project would be really cool. If it was also GPL. I have yet to encounter any argument against GPL that doesn’t boil down to corpo boot licking. You say “Even if it ends up being in a proprietary program, it’s better than not being able to use the code”. This is a bad faith argument. Everyone can use GPL code freely, the restriction is only that you must also publish under GPL if you publish. I’m sorry your favorite corporation can’t profit off community projects without giving back to that community… not. If GPL was a real problem BSD would have overtaken Linux ages ago. But it didn’t because GPL is good not just for the community but for the project. The only people that don’t stand to gain from GPL are corporations that want to monopolize the technology.

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  • @sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-09-16 04:21

    I think I’d rather have it be rust AND copyleft, so the only projects that can use it are the ones that contribute back to society

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  • @Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2026-09-17 10:38

    Anyone who writes Rust code can read, adapt and make changes to it Lol. Anyone who writes C code can read, adapt and make changes to it Anyone who writes Python code can read, adapt and make changes to it Anyone who writes Ada code can read, adapt and make changes to it What kind of argument is that?

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