Short version for non-lawyers: The inlinable_string crate is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms. Longer version: The inlinable_string crate is copyright 2015, The inlinable_string crate Developers (given in the file Cargo.toml). Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license , at your option. All files in the project carrying such notice may not be copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms. Portions of this code, its interfaces, and documentation are forked from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libcollections/string.rs which is copyright 2014, The Rust Project Developers and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license , at your option.