Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License - eviltoast
  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    I think they are changing it because essentially nobody is really willing to pay for a linker that saves a few seconds at most over LLVM’s lld. So they weren’t actually seeing anyone pay for the corporate license. So now they’re hoping to get more crowd funding going by making it more permissive.

    • igorkraw@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      At least in my experience, with Rust, it is a noticeable difference. But yeah, not enough for any but the most generous boss to pay for