On my local machine (since I have texlive installed and each texlive package is a separate package in openSUSE ignore the fact that `LPPL` is the most popular).

On my local machine (since I have texlive installed and each texlive package is a separate package in openSUSE ignore the fact that `LPPL` is the most popular). GPL-2.0+ is ~2x more popular than MIT (and all of the *GPLs together are ~4x more popular) in my admittedly small sample size of packages. % rpm -qai | awk '$1 == "License" { print $3 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n10 1248 LPPL-1.0 558 GPL-2.0+ 301 MIT 293 LGPL-2.1+ 221 BSD-3-Clause 138 GPL-2.0 131 GPL-3.0+ 115 SUSE-Public-Domain 79 Artistic-1.0 41 Apache-2.0 And actually I haven't counted dual-licensing. Here's an even better script: % rpm -qai | awk '$1 == "License" { print $3 }' | grep GPL | wc -l 1316 % rpm -qai | awk '$1 == "License" { print $3 }' | grep MIT | wc -l 302