ke to appeal to as many of those potential contributors as possible.</li>
</ul>

<h1 id='why-dual-mitasl2-license' class='section-header'><a href='#why-dual-mitasl2-license'>8 Why dual MIT/ASL2 license?</a></h1>
<p>The Apache license includes important protection against patent aggression, but it is not compatible with the GPL, version 2. To avoid problems using Rust with GPL2, it is alternately MIT licensed.</p>

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