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On GitHub, GNU licenses (a.k.a. "Free Software") have only 22% share. The vast majority of OSS software created these days is licensed under Apache/MIT/BSD, not
by 7e 2y ago
On GitHub, GNU licenses (a.k.a. "Free Software") have only 22% share. The vast majority of OSS software created these days is licensed under Apache/MIT/BSD, not GNU. Free software is increasingly unpopular, to the point where I would call it a failed idea.
- orwin 2y agoBSD and apache2 aren't free software nowadays? Because I remember learning that you had 3 types of FLOSS: no copyleft, weak copyleft (Gplv2, LGPL, CEciLL-C) and strong copyleft (gplv3, AGPL) but maybe nowadays terms have changed?
- schoen 2y agoFSF's Venn diagram: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html Some people seem to have gravitated toward saying that only copyleft licenses are "free software" (because FSF promotes both concepts?), but this is contrary to historical usage, where copyleft and permissive licenses were both considered both "free" and "open source".