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Many open source projects are not on github.

• city41 12y ago
  This is a pretty interesting article [1]. Out of GitHub, SourceForge, CodePlex and the Apache Foundation, SourceForge is largely GPL but the rest largely are not. According to Wikipedia, SourceForge hosts about 300,000 projects, and GitHub has 10 million as of December 2013. I still have pretty strong confidence that the majority of open source projects are not GPL'd. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg4NDY http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg4NDY
  • belorn 12y ago
    A larger majority (>80%) of packaged programs in Debian, Ubuntu and redhat is GPL. If you look at what people actually use in their servers or open source desktops, then the majority will be GPL. One conclusions reached from this is that people tend to not care about licensing when they just want to push this weekends freshly created project into github, which result in the MIT license getting higher statistics in github compared to repositories with some quality requirements. One can also assume that uploading things to github is much easier that SourceForge, and people use github as a development platform instead of a pure publishing platform.
    • city41 12y ago
      The converse of that is as a frontend developer pretty much 100% of what I use is MIT or similar licensed. In fact I'm struggling to even think of one software package that is copyleft in the frontend world. I dunno, I'll admit this thread has been eye opening. The GPL is definitely more common than I originally thought. But I think really nailing down specifics on this would be tough.