What an absolute shitshow

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[–] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I love rust, but I absolutely hate how it's used to jam MIT licenses where GPL belongs. Maybe it's time we consider using corpos tools against them, and use an AI to rewrite GNU utils to Rust, so that people can continue contributing to Rust while not feeding corps?

Edit: Though licensing AI software is iffy at best, you've got to own the copyright to something to licence it: Non-human productions are legally non-copyrightable. Also it might be better to just have humans do it anyway. The intent of my message was just that maybe we ought to deprive MIT-licensed projects from FOSS-motivated developers by providing Rust GPL alternatives to MIT/corporate Rust projects

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You can use rust and still use the GPL.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    My issue isn't with Rust as a language at all, I quite enjoy making my projects with it. My issue is with "Rust rewrites" of GPL software, only to have those rewrites be licensed under MIT/Apache. To me it signifies that these rewrites were never about the safety features of Rust, but that they are attempts at pushing out the GPL

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