On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> 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.
FWIW, the Apache license accounts for about 90% of the projects on RIAForge (I asked Ray this at one of the conferences where I was presenting on CFML and the open source landscape). Of course, that may have something to do with the Apache license being the first / default option in the license drop-down... It is worth pointing out that whilst GPL is the "purest" open source license, it is also the one that causes commercial companies the most grief - they prefer more "permissive" licenses like Apache. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood -- 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
