license counts
Forrest J. Cavalier III
mibsoft at mibsoftware.com
Fri Oct 15 14:45:11 UTC 1999
A caveat with taking freshmeat license counts....
Freshmeat.net doesn't list everything.
Freshmeat does not list older applications
and utilities, such as common system utilities
or library functions. Even with just what is
distributed with OpenBSD or FreeBSD, this is
thousands of items.
But for each such BSD item not listed, there
is likely a GNU and Linux work-alike which is
also not listed. So they might offset each other
pretty well.
Draw conclusions if you wish, the data is
below.
Forrest J. Cavalier III, Mib Software Voice 570-992-8824
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Count of "license type" field of freshmeat.net
15-Oct-99 4-Mar-99 License type
count ratio count ratio
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1 0.000 0 0.000 Eiffel Forum Freeware License
2 0.000 2 0.001 AFPL
2 0.000 0 0.000 Apache style
2 0.000 0 0.000 IBM Public License
9 0.002 2 0.001 QPL
14 0.003 7 0.003 source-available commercial
15 0.003 9 0.004 MIT
21 0.004 6 0.002 MPL
22 0.004 0 0.000 Artistic & GPL
39 0.007 10 0.004 Free Trial
48 0.009 23 0.009 Shareware
59 0.011 82 0.032 unknown
78 0.014 26 0.010 Public Domain
82 0.015 39 0.015 commercial
117 0.022 56 0.022 Artistic
171 0.031 82 0.032 BSD type
180 0.033 74 0.029 free for non-commercial use
208 0.038 92 0.036 LGPL
211 0.039 177 0.070 free to use but restricted
226 0.042 104 0.041 OpenSource
241 0.044 106 0.042 Freeware
263 0.048 118 0.047 freely distributable
3419 0.630 1510 0.598 GPL
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