# Rationale of Apache dual licensing

**URL:** <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rationale-of-apache-dual-licensing/8952>\
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**Created:** [December 4, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rationale-of-apache-dual-licensing/8952 "2018-12-04T06:00:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rationale-of-apache-dual-licensing/8952/6 "2018-12-04T23:10:32Z")

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Another option (that also didn’t exist at the time Rust was first licensed) is to use Apache-2.0 with the [LLVM exception](https://spdx.org/licenses/LLVM-exception.html), which provides explicit GPLv2 compatibility.

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