Yep, it is.
Yep, it is.
This will also hopefully limit the number of issues opened that are resolved with a “you must enable X feature.”
Really though. Now that the sub is officially dead, people will start looking for an alternative.
The community tends to favor more permissive licenses in general. I think a lot of it is due to a large amount of core libraries (often owned by members of the core team, in Rust nursery, or otherwise central to the ecosystem) using MIT or Apache 2.0, which means users who begin publishing their own libraries and know next to nothing about licenses will just follow suit.
I do wonder how it would hold up on court to basically clone something by rewriting it in a different programming language and then relicense it. I’m no lawyer though, I have little understanding of how these things work.
That’s you assuming all things are equal.