[OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of a project's license

[Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov]

>Il 27/07/2012 12:45, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto:
>> GPL is dying, of natural causes.
>> http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github Best regards, 
>is this true only on GH, or is it a general phenomenon?

Well, if you do a quick search for GPL on github, 
https://github.com/search?q=GPL&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1&type=Everything&language=
, you have about 1572 repositories that match. 


Searching for MIT or GPL dual license 
,https://github.com/search?q=MIT+or+GPL&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1&type=Everything&language=, 
turns up 3475 repositories.

It's interesting that the most active projects on github are not GPL, but 
I don't think that signals the death of the GPL license. 

Doug


Doug Newcomb 
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