discuss: statistics
Subject:
Re: statistics
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
4 Aug 2001 21:44:03 -0000
Message-Id: <20010804174255.C4664@lupercalia.net>
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 12:08:38PM -0700, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, David Merrill wrote:
>
> >Well, now we have pretty much final stats on our licenses. Not very
> >good, imo.
> >
> >24.62% Free
>
> cool
>
> >71.28% Nonfree
>
> But are they OpenSource? How many of these are, Open Source versus GNU
> Free. I would also be interested in knowing how many of these are GNU
> FREE, versus Beer Free.
I consider OPL, GPL and GFDL to be Free as in Speech. LDPL is not Free
(or Open Source), and no license at all is of course copyright by
default under U.S. law and technically cannot be distributed. Except
by the LDP, to whom they were provided by the authors.
But the statistics page gives you the exact percentages by specific
license.
GFDL 29 07.44%
GPL 60 15.38
LDPL 93 23.85
NONE 98 25.13
OPL 07 01.79
OTHER 86 22.05
PD 15 03.85
There are undoubtedly errors in the way these were entered. There are,
for instance, several variants on the LDPL, so not all LDPL licenses
are really the same license. And sometimes the license is buried
deeply somewhere and I've missed them.
OTHER includes any license that is a custom written one, such as
`redistribute freely, but ask me before modifying', etc. I think there
are one or two OCL's in there, too.
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