On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Josh Leverette <[email protected]> wrote: > I really don't think it's just him that the licensing terms aren't suitable > for. By using MPS, every single line of Rust code ever written would be > freely requestable by any and every individual unless the company writing > the code took care to relicense MPS or to destroy any connection MPS has to > their code. > > This is no way to make a new language accepted by the community, especially > not a FOSS community. If MPS would be happy to relicense under the MIT for > the whole of the FOSS community, I'm sure we would get along just fine, or, > if Rust were to drop MPS... but I don't see any way for Rust to coexist with > MPS with its current license. > > So yes, an investigation into this possibility is fine, but switching to it > should wait until the license is appropriate, in my personal opinion. No > offense to MPS. >
This was already taken into consideration, upstream is amenable to relicensing, and have done so in the past. If a licensing agreement can't be worked out, it won't be used. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
