GPLv3 One Year Anniversary Edition 06/29/08
The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3/AGPLv3 adoption for the past year.
This Edition:
GPLv3 - One Year Later
GPLv3 - 10,000 projects
Interviews
Conversation With Chris DiBona
Richard Stallman on Free Software vs Open Source
Words of Wisdom from Marco Barulli
Significant Adopters and Rejectors
To Sum it All Up
Counts for the Week
Happy Birthday GPL v3
It is said that in the act of scientific observation, that which one observes is permanently changed. My team and I were tasked on year with creating a way to objectively track the use of the GPLv3 license and variants within the global of non-commercial software. We spent about 6 weeks planning, researching, and developing tools, processes, documentation and the public site http://gpl3.palamida.com. On the front end, we run JBOSS, on the back, Ruby and MySQL. We do analytics with Pentaho, Groovy and Python, and we manage the content with Google Apps for Business, Mionet, Mesh, and Dropbox.
On June 29, 2007, we went live with 67 Ruby projects from Rubyforge, and by the first Friday, we went to 82. A year has passed, and this team has been staffed by interns from fine colleges around the country, senior project manager Kinyoshi Tokuyama, project managers Antony Tran and Edwin Pahk, senior programmer Chris Porter, and me.
Our goal from that first day was to objectively track the use of GPLv3 variants (GPLv3, LGPLv3, and "or later"), provide accurate counts and clear validation.
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