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is there something about rust which precludes copyleft licensing? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I often see Rust mentioned at the same time as MIT-type licenses.

Is it just a cultural thing that people who write Rust dislike Libre copyleft licenses? Or is it baked in to the language somehow?

Edit: It has been pointed out that I meant to say "copyleft", not "libre", so edited the title and body likewise.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Ugh, that would complicate things. If that’s the case, all I can say is that’s really negligent (and goes into what I originally said about lack of stable ABI really ruining Rust for me — technically I said static linking but that’s really the core issue)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, and there's no plan to stabilize the ABI because it's developing.

    You can use C ABI for some data formats, but you're limited on what you can use (mostly primitives). There's a crate stable-abi or abi-stable that provides a way to do things to keep it stable, but since it's external crate it has limitations.

    I know it's frustrating because I am writing something in rust that loads functions in runtime. I thought it'd be easy because programs written in C do it all the time. Rust gives a lot of advantages but working on dynamic loading hasn't been fun. And there aren't a lot of resources about this either.

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