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2,000 GPLv3 projects and counting, finds Palamida

by Matt Asay

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 brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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by mbleasdale April 1, 2008 9:56 AM PDT
It's been exciting to watch the adoption of the GPLv3. From the start, Palamida predicted that it would slow and steady, with a number of projects moving over on their next rev. We're seeing this come to fruition and believe that it will continue down that path. As for the AGPL, please stay tuned, we have been working on the best way to get everyone the top quality information they are used to receiving from us and we look forward to providing AGPL information in the very near future.

--Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale
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by mbleasdale April 1, 2008 9:59 AM PDT
It's exciting to see the progressive adoption of the GPLv3. It is as we predicted from the start, slow and steady with projects moving over with their next rev. We believe that it will continue down that path for some time. As for the AGPL, we have been diligently working on a way to best represent tracking this project in the same quality way that folks have become accustomed to from our team. Stay tuned!

Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale
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by ernestpark April 1, 2008 11:36 AM PDT
Hi Matt -

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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by rsteadman April 4, 2008 9:29 AM PDT
Interesting. But I wonder, on what planet is anyone "excited" by the adoption of GPL3, especially given that Linus Torvalds has a cogent argument for not adopting GPL3. With respect to the "AGPL," one wonders just how many licensing schemes and permutations of the GPL are necessary, and it seems this is one the crowd can and will ignore. I like what Palamida does, in general, but I think their paid cheerleaders need to stop posting these fatuous blogs unless they have something substantive to say.
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