The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the “experimental” tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for Linux team.
Isn’t one of the main concerns the licensing of Rust?
No. The Rust code in the kernel is GPLv2 just like the rest of the kernel. The licence of the compiler has nothing to do with that, that’s nonsense Rust haters make up.
You can argue against independent projects like the Rust coreutils not using a copyleft license, but that has nothing to do with Rust or the kernel. There are independent C projects without non-copyleft licenses too.
Huh, its a programing language. People can write the code and use whatever license they want.
Rust is mit/apache licensed? What concerns are there?
rust the language is, but projects using it can be any other license, like GPL 2 or 3 or whatever cursed one that sudo has
Yes, I know.