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I noticed that - the fork list isn't a good representation either. It would be interesting to get a sample across github, bitbucket, google code and whatever th
by nikcub 15y ago
I noticed that - the fork list isn't a good representation either. It would be interesting to get a sample across github, bitbucket, google code and whatever that site is called that .NET developer use.
I don't think a survey of all of those site s combined would fall far from the 90-95% BSD/MIT license rate you see in the GitHub sample (again, talking about web related open source software).
Anecdotally, I have also noticed that many Android/iOS/mobile libraries are also MIT/Apache/BSD.
- tptacek 15y agoLike another commenter noted, the FSF (wow what a bad logo) recently did a survey of Debian packages that rebuts the 90-95% claim. But there's no way to apples-apples this anyways. Communities like Rails produce starbursts of itsy bitsy little packages like form-building gems, and have MIT licensing norms. You'd need to normalize somehow for value or code base size. What I'd say is that "GPL use is plummeting" is an extraordinary claim, that extraordinary evidence has not been marshaled to support it, and that a more likely phenomenon is that the GPL is roughly as strong as it's ever been in its original domain (the licensing of large, complex, expensive- to- produce software packages) and probably not as prevalent in some of the newer more... uh... casual... software development domains.