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I seem to be in a huge minority, but I think Zed is right on here (and in many other places).
by DanielStraight 17y ago
I seem to be in a huge minority, but I think Zed is right on here (and in many other places).
- boucher 17y agoI'm not really sure it is a minority, or at least not as much as it may seem here on Hacker News. I recall reading that the GPL is by far the single most popular open source license. Can't seem to be able to back it up though. Either way, something like 25% of projects listed on ohloh are licensed under the GPL, so its hardly a small minority of the free software community.
- silentbicycle 17y agoSeveral licenses are typically lumped together as BSD-like licenses, especially when comparing to the GPL. How about when the numbers for the BSD, 3-clause BSD, MIT, ISC, etc. are combined? (Counting the GPL is likewise combining GPL v. 2, GPL v. 3, LGPL, etc., I expect.)
- cdibona 17y agoThat's an incorrect number. If you look at the open source code on the internet, it hovers around 47% to 48% (with a greater than 2b unique project lines sample. About 22% are lgpl, though, so maybe that's what you meant.
- SwellJoe 17y agoYou're not in the minority. Fanatics are just loud. Zed is the odd man out by being both loud and non-fanatical about licenses. We have projects under both licenses, representing a half million lines of code, and I rarely rant about licenses.
- apotheon 17y ago> You're not in the minority. Fanatics are just loud. Hmmm. That statement has implications you may not have intended.