Aslett: The trend towards permissive licensing
Aslett: The trend towards permissive licensing
Matthew Aslett argues
that the popularity of copyleft licenses is in decline. "This
last chart illustrates something significant about the previous dominance
of strong copyleft licenses: that it was achieved and maintained to a
significant degree due to the vendor-led open source projects, rather than
community-led projects. One of the main findings of our Control and
Community report was the ongoing shift away from projects controlled by a
single vendor and back toward community and collaboration. While some might
expect that to mean increased adoption of strong copyleft licenses - given
that they are associated with collaborative development projects such as
GNU and the Linux kernel - the charts above indicate a shift towards non
copyleft.
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