Number of GPL v3 projects tops 2,000

Da Massive writes "The number of open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License Version 3 has grown to more than 2,000, according to Palamida, which sells software and services for tracking open-source code within a customer's code base. 'Our database now contains over 2,000 projects that are using the GPL v3. "At this rate the GPL v3 is being adopted by 1,000 projects every 4-5 months, and if the trend continues, the license will be used by 5,000 projects by the end of the year," states a recent posting on Palamida's blog.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad the quality of the products will still be unfinished eternally beta like pretty much all FOSS.

You used several of them to post here, AC.

[twitter]

Apache is GPL3 compatible and Slashdot would not be possible without many supporting GNU utilities. If you posted from Firefox (80% of Slashdot users) or a Mac and most BSD, you got here by way of GCC compiled software. If all the GPL3 software were to vanish or somehow be taxed tomorrow, the US and world economy would collapse.

Re:You used several of them to post here, AC.

[dgatwood]

Even GCC, the only GNU project of consequence, is really not that important. If it went away tomorrow, LLVM and clang could take its place. It probably will anyway, eventually, since GCC is a maintenance nightmare from everything I've read and heard. In the end, the GPLv3 won't be what killed GCC, though it was definitely the straw that broke the camel's back and drove a bunch of people over to LLVM, thus increasing development on that project.