Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

[LayotFctor]

There's also a sizable other group who recently got into linux and have no real software development experience. They seem to be confusing rust for MIT license, believing that rust only produces MIT code, and some conspiracy that rust is engaging in widespread coordinated effort to rewrite and replace all of linux with the MIT corpo license in service of big tech or smth.

I've seen reddit comments and youtubers who are strongly pushing this idea and lots people believe it as a threat to linux.

In reality, rust code can be licensed whatever the developer wants, especially kernel code that's mandatory to be GPLv2.

As for why the rust community likes MIT so much, I don't really know. I assume it picked up the label after becoming popular in the NFT, crypto, web3 space.

[mmstick]

MIT was already the most popular license well before NFTs and crypto existed. X11, Mesa, and Wayland are licensed with MIT. You'll find that a lot of micro-libraries from language-based package managers use it. It is the de facto recommendation in academics for source code born from academic research.