Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flasc...@gatech.edu> writes: >On 12/05/2012 10:23 AM, Karl Fogel wrote: >> Luis Villa <l...@tieguy.org> writes: >>> Anyone else have other suggestions for objective criteria we could >>> use? I know some folks here have been thinking about this issue for >>> some time. >> >> Number of "forks" of software under a given license on GitHub, adjusted >> for license popularity across GitHub? (And the equivalent calculation >> for other sites, where possible.) > >That could be misleading, depending on what we want to measure. There >are a lot of forks doing real work (either true forks, or those that do >ongoing pull requests to keep synced). > >However, there are also people that fork and make one or two changes, or >none at all. There's nothing wrong with that, it just might not be a >meaningful metric for this purpose.
Of course. I meant that as a direction to look in, not as a literal suggestion of methodology. By number of forks at GitHub, I meant "look at the forks, using some kind of intelligent criteria, statistical methods, etc". This is non-trivial work, of course. Which is why it is so hard to get good stats on license popularity and why the notion is rife with fundamental definitional questions. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
