On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Matthew Woodward wrote: ... > Also interesting to note that taken as a whole, GPL licenses represent 70% > of free software projects (~65% if you remove the LGPL from the total), > whereas for all the name recognition it has, the Apache 2 license represents > only 4% of projects.
I wonder what the stats would be on use, versus number of projects? Probably similar, but still interesting. Software is fascinating! So's hardware! But I digress. =) > Not saying one's better or worse, and not sure I even have a point with the > statistics really, just interesting stuff to ponder. I love pondering! The GPLs ROCK from a logical perspective. Powerful Stuff. I was just lamenting the romantic tragedy-ness that sometimes results. I didn't mean to derail the conversation. I doubt Peter meant to spark a philosophical discussion- I'd just been thinking about it recently, and love to talk. And type. =) :Den -- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. Plato -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon official manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ Ready2Run CFML http://www.openbluedragon.org/openbdjam/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
