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Black Duck on GPLv3 adoption
Black Duck Software observes the first anniversary of GPLv3 with a press release about its study of adoption of this license. "Since the release of GPLv3, 2,345 open source projects have opted to use the license. The number of projects covered by GPLv3 has been growing at a rate of about 20 percent per month over the past six months. Ubuntu, SugarCRM, Samba and Funambol are a few of the widely used projects that have selected GPLv3." Version 2 is still the dominant license, though.
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Black Duck on GPLv3 adoption Posted Jun 21, 2008 19:06 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] Their list seems closed—I hence recommend http://gpl3.palamida.com/ instead.
Black Duck on GPLv3 adoption Posted Jun 22, 2008 1:24 UTC (Sun) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] So, in which category are they putting the "version 2 or later" option? The press release didn't seem to answer this. I'm honestly not sure which category projects using that option belong.
Black Duck on GPLv3 adoption Posted Jun 22, 2008 3:57 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] I would put them in category 2 since that is the license that they are using. Unless they choose the gplv3 as their official license then they don't belong in that group.
Black Duck on GPLv3 adoption Posted Jun 26, 2008 22:17 UTC (Thu) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link] But there's a big functional difference in a world with GPLv3 between GPLv2 and GPLv2 or later versions. That's a whole world of compatibility that's being ignored there.
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