Surveying open source licenses

Posted Apr 21, 2013 8:40 UTC (Sun) by mkerrisk (subscriber, #1978)
In reply to: Surveying open source licenses by nix
Parent article: Surveying open source licenses

> Um... Walter's dataset contained 36,674 projects

Good spotting. There was a typo. That number should have been 38,674. Fixed now, thanks.

Surveying open source licenses

Posted Apr 23, 2013 12:33 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

That really is a surprisingly high percentage. I think another way to think about it is that the few incompatibilities that *do* arise cause pain out of all proportion to their numbers. So we should try to reduce them even more...

Surveying open source licenses

Posted Apr 24, 2013 3:15 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

That's not saying that they were all compatible with each other, but rather that they were compatible with _something_ else, even if it's only one other thing.