Re: [News] GPLv3 is on the Rise

[Ben <beno1990@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> GPLv3 grows as GPL stumbles
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> | Black Duck reckons there are about 9,500 GPLv3 licensed applications now. 
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/30/gplv3_use_on_rise_gpl_decline/
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> GPLv3/AGPLv3 Adoption: If It Happened Too Fast, I'd Be Worried
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> | Since the release of GPLv3, technology pundits have been opining about how
> | adoption is unlikely, usually citing Linux's still-GPLv2 status as (often
> | their only) example. Even though I'm a pro-GPLv3 (and, specifically,
> | pro-AGPLv3) advocate, I have never been troubled by slow adoption, as long as
> | it remained on a linear upswing from release day onward (which it has).
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> http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2008/nov/13/gplv3-agplv3-adoption/
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I still prefer the GPLv2 to be honest. Some of the new additions in the 
GPLv3 aren't to my liking.
Still, all of these new licenses being used more and more on software 
with incompatibilities between each is creating problems. It's the 
reason why Google Code only allows a small number of licenses to be used 
in user projects.
I still remember when your choice was pretty much GPL vs. BSD.