April 1, 2008 5:33 AM PDT
2,000 GPLv3 projects and counting, finds Palamida
In my estimation, the GPL is by far the world's best open-source license for business. If Palamida's recent count of GPLv3-licensed projects is any indication, business in open source is very, very good:
Our database now contains over 2,000 projects that are using the GPL v3. At this rate the GPL v3 is being adopted by 1,000 projects every 4-5 months, and if the trend continues, the license will be used by 5,000 projects by the end of the year.
It will take time for GPLv3 to achieve the same level of trust that GPLv2 has enjoyed, but at this rate it may be happening sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, Palamida, a request: Could we get a count on the number of projects using the Affero GPL (AGPL)? It will be miniscule today but I'd be interested in following its growth.
Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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While we have been tracking a number of licenses since the inception of the site, we will be incorporating Affero as of this week. Note that we did provide a running list as of this post - http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/03/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0321.html.
Please contact me if you need the information in a a specific format at rdgroup@palamida.com.
Ernie
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