Nov 17 2007 10:19AM GMT
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Legal, licensing issues,
GPL issues
When you think turkey and Thanksgiving, you think about open source projects that have adopted the GPLv3, right?
Well, even if you don’t, here’s an update from Palamida about the 50+ OSS projects that have moved to version 3.0 of the GNU Public License over the past two weeks.
Palamida:
Since many people will be off next week, we would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving early. But onto non-food related issues, as of November 16th 4pm PST, our list has grown to 1151 GPL v3 projects, which is a growth of 56 new GPL v3 projects from last week. Our LGPL v3 count has increased by 1 project, bringing the current count to 95 LGPL v3 projects. The GPL v2 or later list has also passed a large milestone of 6000 GPL v2 or later projects. Over the last week, 76 new GPL v2 or later projects have been added, bringing the count to 6034 GPL v2 or later projects.
This thing keeps on chugging along. Suffice to say, I haven’t heard the same levels of rhetoric and back-and-forth that I heard about the GPLv3 over the summer. Whether that’s just information overload, vacation time, or genuine acceptance remains to be seen.
Oct 24 2007 8:24AM GMT
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GPL issues
What could the World Series and the General Public License (GPL) possibly have in common?
Well, there’s one thing, if you stretch it really thin: October. The World Series, obviously, will begin tonight between the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies at Fenway Park in Boston, Mass. The hype, no thanks to FOX and those Dane Cook promos, has reached a fever pitch (pun intended). The GPL, on the other hand, saw above average adoption rates among open source developers and their projects.
Palamida gives us the details:
As of Oct. 19, 1pm PST, our database contained 898 GPL v3 projects, as compared with last week’s number on October 12th of 833 GPL v3 projects. This is a larger-than-average increase of 65 GPL v3 projects which puts us on the brink of 900 GPL v3 projects and closer to the important milestone of 1,000 GPL v3 projects.
As much as I’d like to think baseball had some kind of profound effect on the adoption rates of the GPLv3, I don’t think that’s the case. In fact, I’m betting that with the cold weather there are probably just a lot more geeks inside coding than there were in August and September.
Sep 25 2007 3:06PM GMT
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For a month that saw a GNU GPL lawsuit and nearly 20% growth in GPLv3 project conversions, September has quickly become yet another month set to go out like a lamb (I’m looking at you, March).
At the beginning of the month, I cited a Palamida report that had tracked the number of GPLv3 adoptions among open source projects at a 15-20% increase month-over-month. Today? The numbers have cooled slightly, although the GPL’s younger brother the LGPL has taken up some of the slack.
Again, Palamida provides some of the licensing numbers they’ve been tracking for the period of September 10 through the 21rst:
Wow for the LGPL v3 (Relatively)
The last two weeks have seen a 17% increase over last in the number of projects that have adopted GPLv3. As of 3pm PDT, September 21, 2007, our research indicates that 683 projects have officially adopted GPLv3, as compared to 585 projects on September 7th. A whopping 31 new projects have adopted LGPLv3 bringing the total LGPLv3 projects to 76.
Palamida is also pretty good at keeping people up to date on some of the specific projects being converted to the GPLv3 (they aren’t just about statistics, people!).
Some of the latest conversions:
- mySerialz: A Web application that allows users to keep track of their serial keys.
- gPodder: A Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK. It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds, simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It supports download resume, if the server supports it.
- Version Control Control (VC”): A tool that integrates with off-the-shelf version control systems and monitors file system access in order to enhance awareness among users. The tool warns about actions made by other users and suggests conflict avoiding actions.
- GNU Emacs: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Emacs is a text editor and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp (“elisp”, for short), a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
- yWiCo: SyWiCo is a tool for managing concurrent modifications of shared files between unconnected computers. It can be used as a synchronization tool relying on email.
- Portaneo Open Source Homepage (POSH): Posh is a open source personalizable portal (Netvibes, iGoogle, …) developed with PHP/MySQL/Ajax.
I assume the last one has no relation to Becks.
Bonus link: More on the FSF lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia.
UPDATE: Hate to kick you while you’re down, buddy, but InformationWorld is reporting that developers are shunning GPLv3.
Aug 27 2007 8:34AM GMT
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Legal, licensing issues,
GPL issues
What the heck, right? It’s a Monday and I just posted GPLv3 growth info last week, but I’m going to do it again anyway!
August appears to be a watershed month for GPLv3 adoption. Last week I mentioned that the new license saw 14% growth week over week. This week? 19%.
Palamida:
This week has seen a 19% increase over last in the number of projects that have adopted GPL v3. As of 1pm PDT, August 24th, our research indicates that 450 projects have officially adopted GPL v3, as compared to 378 on August 17, 2007. An additional 6 projects have adopted LGPL v3, brining the total to LGPL v3 projects to 27.
Palamida has also been pretty good about informing the masses about which prijects are jumping on board with GPLv3. New project conversions this week include:
GnuPG: GnuPG is the GNU project’s complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC2440 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories.
GNU CPIO: This project is part of the GNU Project. GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The archive can be another file on disk, a magnetic tape, a pipe, etc.
SIWT: Sudo inventory web-tool (SIWT) is a web interface to view and administer information related to /etc/sudoers files on multiple servers. The database contains data on servers, users, aliases, dates, etc. This tool is helpful for internal audits
August is hot for GPLv3 news, but will it last?
