I really think that for the copyleft strategy to furthering software freedom, *volume* of programs under the GPL is not the most important factor, but rather the strategic value of the program.
If I license my little script under the GPL, that is good, but if no one would ever have wanted to make a proprietary program on it, then the strategy hasn't help software freedom very much. Big success stories from the past may be informative. Take the GCC, LLVM situation as an example. This is a *huge* GPL success story. GCC was so good that even Apple shipped a version for awhile, and then spent *a lot* of time and money on LLVM (which also ended up being mostly free software!) because they wanted to "escape" from GCC. Forcing a company to spend their resources replacing a strategic GPL'd program instead of using those resources to further enslave users is a very big win! Another very similar good case is Linux and Fuscia, where Google is spending resources trying to replace a GPL'd program. Or how about the case of AMD employing people to work on a GPL'd driver for their graphics cards? That is putting their resources towards *creating copylefted free software* just because they find Linux such a valuable program to contribute to. And of course we have enforcement cases like OpenWRT where the use of GPL'd programs was too big a temptation and enough useful source was obtained to create a whole project that is very useful. So what we should be thinking about is not "how can I make every little git repo out there sport a GPL license", because that would not be a bad thing, but it would not help us very much. What we should be thinking about is "what programs are going to be *so useful* that people who would rather spend their resources writing proprietary software choose to reimplement what we have, or even contribute to our free program". No clone of something proprietary will be this strategic, unless it is a *much improved* clone. I will not claim to know what it will be, so obviously we must keep trying many different things, but really with a focus on the goal.
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