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Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed
PCM2 writes "Kids these days just don't care about open source. That's the conclusion of the Software Freedom Law Center's Aaron Williamson, who analyzed some 1.7 million projects on GitHub and found that only about 15% of them had a clearly identifiable license in their top-level directories. And of the projects that did have licenses, the vast majority preferred permissive licenses such as the MIT, BSD, or Apache licenses, rather than the GPL. Has the younger generation given up on ideas like copyleft and Free Software? And if so, what can be done about it?" Not having an identifiable license is one thing, but it seems quite a stretch to say that choosing a permissive open source license is "not caring"; horses for courses.
+1 GPL is just a pain in the ass. The new world of open source is the practical approach where companies primarily sell SaaS and want to adapt free infrastructure components into custom apps that are sold to people who don't even know what source code vs. trying to build some grand open source app and hope to make money off it selling support.
Stallman is a wannabe tinpot dictator who wants all software to be regulated according to his diktats. He wants to end software engineering as a career that you can actually earn a living from.