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		cornel007 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ghostty 1.0 Congrats! I’m curious what the main reason is you ended up going with the MIT license over GPL. Is it because of potentially integrating Ghostty with VS Code like you mentioned during Zig showtime a year ago?

needlesslygrim 6 months ago [–]

I'm also interested in why the MIT license was chosen. I guess it's because of the plan to create 'libghostty'?

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