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>Regardless of Apple's goals in this action, a lot of the OSS world is moving to permissive licenses, so this isn't a terribly surprising move. Guess I hadn't

>Regardless of Apple's goals in this action, a lot of the OSS world is moving to permissive licenses, so this isn't a terribly surprising move. Guess I hadn't noticed "a lot of the OSS world moving to permissive licenses". The GPL is still the workhorse of many free systems with code coming out all the time. I mean, if you're counting web development code (like the Rails ecosystem), I suppose you could make the argument that the MIT license is surging... but there's a whole world of code beyond generating dynamic HTML that continues to be licensed under the old-guard licenses.

batista 15y ago
Most major new projects seem to come with non GPL licenses...
- xyzzyz 15y ago
  I didn't have this impression. Could you give some examples?
  - nikcub 15y ago
    https://github.com/popular/watched https://github.com/popular/watched almost every one of those projects is BSD/MIT licensed
rsynnott 15y ago
> Guess I hadn't noticed "a lot of the OSS world moving to permissive licenses". The GPL is still the workhorse of many free systems with code coming out all the time. I don't have the stats handy right now, but in general the percentage of new projects using permissive licenses has increased sharply, and many non-FSF GPLv2 products have not made the jump to GPLv3.