Rick Moen scripsit:
> "With rare exceptions, if you use a licence other than BSD (new or
> old), MIT/X, GPL, LGPL, MPL, CPL, AFL, OSL, you're probably dooming
> your project to gratuitous and pointless licence incompatibility with
> third-party codebases and ensuring that it will be ignored by the
> very developers you're trying to reach by adopting open source.
I did a little research at Sourceforge and Freshmeat, looking at licenses
(excluding the non-FLOSS ones at Sourceforge). First of all, the GPL has
about 70% of the projects, so let's leave it out so that the contrasts
between other licenses become clearer.
Averaging the two sites together, we get the following:
32% LGPL
31% BSD (old or new)
5% MIT/X
5% MPL
2% CPL or IBM
1% OSL
1% AFL
Licenses you didn't mention:
8% Artistic or Perl
5% Apache (any version)
1% Qt
1% zlib/libpng
8% all others (none more than 1% individually)
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