On Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 2:14 AM Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@opensource.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:04:40PM +0000, Luis Villa wrote: > > - Top 10 open source licenses > > < > https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/whitesource-blog/open-source-software-licenses-trends/ > > > > from WhiteSource. Top 5 are same as Black Duck, but BlackDuck has > Perl at > > #6 and ISC at #7 (despite being deprecated by ISC!) and MS-PL doesn't > make > > the top 10; WhiteSource doesn't have ISC or Perl and has MS-PL at #7. > > For the records, and unless I'm missing something, this seems to be at > the same level of "scientificity" of the yearly report by Black Duck: we > don't know what's in the database of "over 3M open source components and > 70M source files", we don't know what they count to produce the pie > charts (files? "components"? popularity? etc.), nor we have access to > the code used to due the counting. > That is correct, as far as I can tell. My point in sharing (which I should have made explicit) is that those differences do have an impact on outcomes, though possibly only at the margins. Luis >
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