data on license usage [was Re: MPL 2 section 11]

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Tue Nov 23 16:35:33 UTC 2010


[Slightly OT, apologies]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Schmitz, Patrice-Emmanuel
<patrice-emmanuel.schmitz at be.unisys.com> wrote:
>> Well, that's why permissive licenses exist, but the MPL is not one
>> of them.
>
> Exactly, John! This is the reason why interoperability must be implemented between the most used copyleft licenses...

What do folks here find to be the best/most reliable list of widely
used licenses? I've looked for such data myself, but I've not found
much I'm happy with, especially when you're looking for data on
licenses which are not hugely popular, or when you're looking for
license use on non-Linux projects (since most of the highest-quality
data is derived from analysis of Debian and Fedora.)

Luis



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