[steveklabnik]

Sure, those authors chose that license because they did not really particularly care for the politics of licenses and chose the most common one in the Rust ecosystem, which is MIT/Apache 2.

If folks want more Rust projects under licenses they prefer, they should start those projects.

[kstrauser]

I released my most recent Rust project under the GPLv3. The first issue was someone asking me to relicense it under MIT. I politely declined.

I bring this up because no matter what you choose, someone will wish it was otherwise.

[chillingeffect]

> If folks want more Rust projects under licenses they prefer, they should start those projects.

100% true, but also hides a powerful fact: Our choices aren't limited to doing it ourselves. Listening to others and discussing how to do things as a group is the essence of community seeking long-term stability abd fairness. It'a how we got to the special place we are now.

Not everyone can or should start their own open source project. Maybe theyre already doing another one. Maybe they don't know how to code. The viewpoint of others/users/customers is valid and should not only be listened to but asked for.