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Survey Says GPLv3 Is Shunned

Posted by kdawson on from the opinion-is-divided dept.

willdavid writes in to note a survey of open source developers conducted by Evans Data that indicates a real rift in the community over GPLv3. The survey was based on in-depth interviews with 380 open source developers and no estimated margin of error was given. "Just 6 percent of developers working with open-source software have adopted the new GNU General Public License version 3... Also, two-thirds say they will not adopt GPLv3 anytime in the next year, and 43 percent say they will never implement the new license. Almost twice as many would be less likely to join a project that uses GPLv3 than would be likely to join... [Evans Data's CEO said] 'Developers are confused and divided about [the restrictions GPLv3 imposes], with fairly equal numbers agreeing with the restrictions, disagreeing with them, or thinking they will be unenforceable.'"

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  1. Microsoft FUD, I imagine. by Erris · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's not much of a study. All they did was take any of the latest Vista business uptake studies and substitute GPL3. EndJoke. There are enough copyright clauses that say "Current version of GPL" for me to not take this study seriously or to think they did not ask enough or the right developers. One of the questions was answered:

    Lack of skills in an organization was the greatest barrier to a migration from Windows to Linux

    Whatever the study was, it's been spun into pure FUD and should not be confused with either news or research.

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  2. Re:Vista? by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vista was just the marketing codename for that operating system.

    Didn't you hear that Microsoft announced yesterday that the official designation for the OS is "XP, Millenium+7 Edition"?

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  3. Linus is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am with Linus on this one. For the life of me I can't understand what this sucking up to RMS is about. Linus himself does not think GPLv3 is a good thing. So why do people keep adopting it.
    Without Linus FOSS is tossed. Not following Linus is dangerous for the survival of FOSS.

  4. Re:Maybe I want my code to be used Commercially! by l4m3z0r · · Score: 0, Troll

    you don't care about commercial entities taking your code, making changes, distributing it to users, and then refusing to give those users (which may include you) access to their modified code, then release your code under the BSD license, or into the public domain. It's your choice. Stop complaining about other peoples' choices.

    Translation: If you don't agree with my point of view. STFU.