eutampieri comments on 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

[+] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com -30 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Isn't also half the point behind Rust the ability to evade the GPL and make Linux more vulnerable to takeover by corporate? Last I checked Ubuntu is replacing some GNU stuff like coreutils with Rust.

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yes, that's correct. Whenever you write something in Rust, the license is automatically permissive. In fact, both US and EU copyright law automatically grant an irrevocable, perpetual license to use any and all Rust code that has ever been written for any purpose at all, including for commercial purpose, unless the code was written by a corporation.

Or, you know, you could just:

[package]
license = "GPL-3.0-only"

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Now that would be a horror story. Then again, it's one of the reasons why I'm asking. Rust fame is just too coincidental with a number of things to not be suspicious. There was a whole thing in C++ (dunno if it's still ongoing) about the "memory safety" meme, as well.

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[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 4 points 3 months ago

Since you seem to be in good faith: no, you’re wrong. Using a language cannot force you into adopting a licence, because automatically everything you produce will be all rights reserved unless otherwise specified. It’s then up to the developer to choose a license.

Rust doesn’t even populate the license metadata in your manifest, it’s up to you.