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		avadodin 49 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Rust faster than C? > especially its insidious, forced MIT rewrites of popular GPL software Is this some sort of movement? I was aware that some Rust software had been released under permissive licenses but I didn't know it was activism besides the obvious C-is-obsolete angle.

steveklabnik 49 days ago [–]

It’s not deliberate activism. It’s two things:

Monomorphizarion makes the GPL weird.

Rust is dual licensed under Apache/MIT, and so most people choose the same as a default if they don’t feel strongly about licensing.

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