To say that GPL licenses are in decline, is inaccurate stateement, as there is every year more and more GPL software.
So it definitely do not decline. The thread subject is inaccurate. If there are more and more packages with GPL licenses in all the GNU/Linux distributions, and others, that does not speak of any decline, it speaks of growth. Just last week, several software have been published as GPL. Measuring statistics of improvement or growth or decline, would need to have number or the value per each year or period of time, and then such has to be compared to each other. If there is no such number anywhere registered, there is no mathematical reason to say it is in decline. I can see more and more packages published, more and more software. The other issue is comparison to other licenses. That cannot speak of decline or growth, as measuring proportions to others is only that, proportions, not growth, not decline. Every year there can be more and more GPL software, like 10, 20, 30, 40 but other types of licenses could be larger in number, that does not mean that GPL number of licenses are in decline. They are in growth trend. I have represented the YouTube count for term Emacs year by year on emacs-devel list, so there is file that clearly shows similar statistics of popularity of Emacs, while somebody was claiming that Emacs popularity is declining, only because that person wanted to say that proportion related to other editors changed. See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg02177.html and the graph of statistics: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/jpg4ro5Zg8XQQ.jpg This thread subject is misleading people. Jean _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
