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A Year of GPLv3
javipas writes "GPLv3 and LGPLv3 were released one year ago, on 29 June 2007. Palamida, who tracks Open Source projects, has made a study of the current situation of these licenses along with AGPLv3, which was released later, in November. The number of projects that have made the transition to these licenses has grown over the last months, and it seems than AGPLv3 has captured a great interest lately. Black Duck Software, a company that tracks Open Source projects too, has made its own study with similar results, and although GPLv3 and its variants have a good adoption rate, the interviews published on the Palamida site (Stallman, Chris Di Bona) show that the acceptance of GPLv3 has still a long way to walk."
Yeah, right. I bow down before your sophisticated reasoning equating completely different kinds of things with each other. Clearly Richard Stallman, a known capitalist enterprenour made rich from GPLv2 royalties, tries to bolster GPLv3 adoption by commissioning groundless studies to deceive people.
(This post contains absolutely no sarcasm at all. Not even a very small amount. Nada. Zero. Look! Shiny!)
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
And they feel they have to do these "studies" for marketing reasons.
Palamida is a security company. They're not the FSF, who, unlike MS do not have reams of cash to promote the GPL.
GPLv3 = IPv6 = Vista = "wfc";
Uh-huh. Uptake of the GPLv3 (as a percentage of GPLv2 instances) is far higher than Vista (compared to Windows installs) or IPV6 vs IPV4
Iditot.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
On no, its bedtime in jolly old England again and I just can't nod off. I'm wearing my nightgown and cap, I've drunk my cocoa, I've tried counting sheep but nothing works. Hold on a minute, what's this
provide accurate counts and clear validation. For each of the more than 15,000 projects collected for this project from more than 500,000 reviewed, the sources were reviewed, proper license references (sound of loud snoring......) and attributions verified, and the license text, unchanged, was identified. While we used some level of automation, we felt that there were problems that required lots of hands and eyes on the problem. Among these were missing license text, no license information in source headers