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by gitgud 2321 days ago
> Dual-licensed under Apache License 2.0 and MIT License.

How does this work? Isn't the Apache license somewhat more restrictive than the MIT license? Why bother with both?

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The primary license is Apache, but the user may license under MIT for GPLv2 compatibility.

I've been writing a lot of Rust lately, and started providing both after their big relicensing push: https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel/issues/82