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by lvass 299 days ago
I think this will be very successful. The Rust community seems very hellbent in achieving success at all costs, this includes making every software permissively licensed, while a lot of foundational software is still copyleft. This will likely trigger Gresham's law soon, and the fact that the community is pushing the security argument forward, which is very difficult to measure, is also very powerful, whether security may be a legitimate concern or it's a think of the children situation.
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Certain portions of the Rust community may default to MIT/Apache out of apathy, but any aversion to GPL isn't a Rust thing, it's just the usual sniping between the general FSF crowd and the general OSI crowd that has been ongoing for decades. By all means, make your Rust crate GPL, nobody's going to stop you.