GPLv3 report: 30% increase with Sugar on top

GPLv3 continued its forward march this past week, as Palamida reports. The pace accelerated this past week with a 30% increase, or 259 projects that have officially adopted GPLv3, as compared to 199 projects on July 20th. An additional 3 projects have adopted LGPLv3 bringing the total LGPLv3 projects to 12.

Of course, if you add in those projects licensed as "GPL v2 or LGPL v2.1 or later," then the total swells to 2,990. Not bad.

One notable addition last week was SugarCRM's Community Edition. One notable exception was the Linux kernel (2.6.22.1).

[mbleasdale]

SugarCRM - Not a total surprise

While the move of SugarCRM may have come as a surprise to some in the community, Palamida feels that the foreshadowing had been provided many months, and possibly even a year previous. As active participants in the revision of the license, it was clear to us that they were making suggestions that allowed them to feel more comfortable with the final shape the license would take. As you pointed out, it is notable that the kernel is thus far not moving as the GNU projects have already done so. The forking that will undoubtedly come to pass will have a significant impact on a the embedded market, something Palamida is dealing with firsthand with an influx of new customers and interest. While we typically don't think about our television sets, cell phones or even our children's electronic toys as harbingers of open source, they are indeed! Just another surprise for our organization as we continue to navigate the GPL3 adoption stream.

Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale, Palamida