Thursday, February 9, 2017

Usage of GPL family licenses in the FOSS domain in % according to Black Duck Software

In 2015 according to BlackDuck the GPLv2 lost its first position on the MIT license and is now second, the GPLv3 dropped to fourth place while the Apache license kept its third position.[6]



Reference 1: GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPL 2.1, LGPL 3.0 and GPL family together.

Reference 2: 2008-05-08[129], 2009-03-11[130], 2011-11-22[120], 2013-08-12[13], 2015-11-19[6], 2016-06-06[131] and 2017-01-02[132].

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License