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icebraining on June 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils

Yes, but the reverse is not true; you can't use GPL-licensed code on your project and still distribute it all as MIT-licensed.

gillianseed on June 12, 2014 [–]

It's true that the GPL-licenced code will remain GPL licenced, the MIT-licenced code will remain available under MIT though.

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