Leaving the GPL behind

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on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @10:20AM

olddotter writes "Yahoo Tech is running a story on companies' decisions to move away from the GPL. Interesting numbers, and a great debate for the Slashdot community. Let the flaming begin..."
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flamewars, hmm? (Score:2)

by Timothy Brownawell (627747) writes:

A June study conducted by Black Duck Software, an open source development tools vendor, shows that the Free Software Foundation's GPL -- although far and away still the dominant open source licensing platform -- could be starting to slide. The survey found that despite strong growth in GPLv3 adoption, the percentage of open source projects using GPL variants dropped from 70 to 65 percent from the previous year.
So all the noise around GPLv3 got some people to think for themselves, rather than just following

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