On 27 July 2012 15:27, Seven (aka Arnulf) <se...@arnulf.us> wrote: > On 07/27/2012 11:45 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> On 27 July 2012 05:55, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote: >>> This is a really interesting debate. Reading the links provided it also >>> appears to be a mixed bag about acceptance of LGPL of various firms and >>> I'm also sure many of us can name firms that have no issue shipping LGPL >>> components. >> >> GPL is dying, of natural causes. >> >> http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github >> >> Best regards, > > (I don't think that GPL is dying, it is still 70% on SourceForge last > time I checked)
As I mentioned, SF.net hosts tons of old, obsolete and inactive projects. > The more interesting question is - what are the "natural causes"? IMO: BSD, MIT, Boost...licenses are freer and this freedom is apparently important for new projects and initiative, especially if the future is unclear. Another important aspect is the simplicity: if I'm not a lawyer, and I don't care about hiring one, but I'm not sure about the terms (and future of my project), I go for simplest reasonable. Finally, I do dare statement, that nowadays most of FOSS code is written on request by companies or individual investors who pay hard cash for most of lines of code written in FOSS projects. The clientelle seems to prefer the freer freedom too. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss