Unlike the GNU coreutils rewrite in Rust, the Bun rewrite in Rust is being undertaken by the owners of the project.
replyThat said, yes, you’re correct that Bun isn’t GPL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun?tab=License-1-ov-file
Hmm, that's unfortunate - why does so much Rust stuff seem to default to MIT/BSD ? Just because Mozilla used that for most of the Rust stuff ?
replyDo developers using Rust even know the difference ? Like how anyone can basically take all you work & base a proprietary fork on it with maybe saying "thanks" (attribution) if they feel like it ? :P
> Like how anyone can basically take all you work & base a proprietary fork on it with maybe saying "thanks" (attribution) if they feel like it ? :P
replyI'd assume the Bun people got a bit more than a thanks when Anthropic acquired them. :)
You also can't take your GPL code (unless you do CLAs with all contributors), convert it to closed source yourself and make a massive VC funded startup around it. Which is about the only other way anyone makes better money from open source than by just working for a big tech company.
I'm very aware when I pick Apache-2. I want attribution for my work, but I don't care about open source purity. I respect closed source software and I put my open source code up for free because I don't care to profit off of my hobbies.
replyfor the same reason most ruby and javascript/typescript stuff is. Heck, even most python.
replyMost of them never got into the GPL in the first place.
Your guess is correct! Congrats. Bun itself is not GPL either by the way. Oh, rust compiler itself isn't GPL either.
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