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[chris at seberino.org]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:56:09PM -0800, Tracy Reed wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 02:40:21PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski spake thusly:
> > I'm going to make you back that up.  I seriously doubt that the GPL
> > is that much more popular than the BSD and BSD-alike (MIT, Apache,
> > X, etc.) licenses in toto.
>
> http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/licenses/
>
> Even if you add up BSD, MIT, Apache and any other license you choose
> it isn't as much as BSD.

I assume you meant to say GPL at the end.

Here is another factoid page based on Black Duck Software stats...

http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/open_source_license_popularity/

"the GPL/LGPL is the most popular license by a wide margin"

I realize they don't distinguish between GPL and LGPL.  Still, GPL/LGPL
buries BSD/MIT by ~600% by their metric.

> That's understandable if you want to lock up your users, which many
> companies do. Not really much of an argument against the GPL though.

+1

Well said.

cs