A caveat with taking freshmeat license counts.... Freshmeat.net doesn't list everything. Freshmeat does not list older applications and utilities, such as common system utilities or library functions. Even with just what is distributed with OpenBSD or FreeBSD, this is thousands of items. But for each such BSD item not listed, there is likely a GNU and Linux work-alike which is also not listed. So they might offset each other pretty well. Draw conclusions if you wish, the data is below. Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824 The Reuse RKT: Efficient awareness for software reuse: Free WWW site lists over 6000 of the most popular open source libraries, functions, and applications. http://www.mibsoftware.com/reuse/ ------------------------------------------------------------- Count of "license type" field of freshmeat.net 15-Oct-99 4-Mar-99 License type count ratio count ratio ------------------------------------------------------------- 1 0.000 0 0.000 Eiffel Forum Freeware License 2 0.000 2 0.001 AFPL 2 0.000 0 0.000 Apache style 2 0.000 0 0.000 IBM Public License 9 0.002 2 0.001 QPL 14 0.003 7 0.003 source-available commercial 15 0.003 9 0.004 MIT 21 0.004 6 0.002 MPL 22 0.004 0 0.000 Artistic & GPL 39 0.007 10 0.004 Free Trial 48 0.009 23 0.009 Shareware 59 0.011 82 0.032 unknown 78 0.014 26 0.010 Public Domain 82 0.015 39 0.015 commercial 117 0.022 56 0.022 Artistic 171 0.031 82 0.032 BSD type 180 0.033 74 0.029 free for non-commercial use 208 0.038 92 0.036 LGPL 211 0.039 177 0.070 free to use but restricted 226 0.042 104 0.041 OpenSource 241 0.044 106 0.042 Freeware 263 0.048 118 0.047 freely distributable 3419 0.630 1510 0.598 GPL