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Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment (www.phoronix.com)
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While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds' numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the "Rust experiment" with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay.

The patch was talked about back in December that the Rust experiment is over and it's here to stay. There are already uses for Rust in production environments, some Linux distributions shipping with Rust kernel code, and millions of Android devices also using it.

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago

Iirc GPL is how we have OpenWRT. Because a company used Linux in their routers, but forgot to release the code initially until sued by FSF or whomever.

Imagine, for example, that your phone has forks of Linux utilities with mysterious closed-source functionality added here and there. And you'd need to reverse-engineer that functionality to have LineageOS and such, instead of just taking the source-code.

Proprietary apps are prone to enshittification, and permissive licenses allow vendors to build their proprietary software on open-source software without giving anything in return.

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