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
-------------------------------------------------------------
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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