On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 07:33 +0300, Jean Louis wrote: > Did you measure https://sourceforge.net/ ? > > Did you measure Bitbucket, Gitlab, private, FTP sites, non-GNU > Savannah, and GNU Savannah or Launchpad? > > Without proper measurement of statistics, the GPL is not in decline > for me. Because so far nobody have shown real statistics. >
Measuring all the repos or all the software available on Debian is still wrong. If I go an create a new project with GPL but it is only useful to me that doesn't help grow the use of GPL software. Measuring what software people actually install and how that changes over time would be much more informative. If I convince Debian to package Bt Builder, it doesn't matter. If everyone is installing it afterward that means it is an important tool. Not everyone needs the same tools so you need to get a crosssection of users to get good information. I don't know any studies about that. Sure you can find percentage of new projects with GPL might be going down but if they are personal projects that a handful of people use it is not significant. If you are really afraid of the headlines, start forking or creating new projects with GPL. You don't even have to include any code in the project. -- Dennis Payne du...@identicalsoftware.com https://social.freegamedev.net/channel/dulsi _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
