Aslett: The trend towards permissive licensing
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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