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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."

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  1. Re:promotional "studies" by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!)

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  2. Palamida has nothing to do with the FSF/GPL. by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Palamida has nothing to do with the FSF/GPL. by afabbro · · Score: 5, Funny

      Iditot.

      Well, you sure showed him.

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    2. Re:Palamida has nothing to do with the FSF/GPL. by S.O.B. · · Score: 4, Funny

      Iditot.

      Well, you sure showed him.

      Maybe he's calling him a baby idiot.

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    3. Re:Palamida has nothing to do with the FSF/GPL. by speilberg0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      damn replying to remove overrated instead of funny