Posted on 09/27/2007 6:00:45 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Fearing the restrictions it places on their work, the majority of open source software developers do not plan to publish code in the next year under a controversial new license authored by the main governing body for open source and free software, according to a survey released Wednesday.
In addition, more than 40% of those surveyed said they won't ever publish their work under Version 3 of the General Public License, which was released earlier this year by the Free Software Foundation. "GPLv3 is controversial because it imposes restrictions on what you can do with programs," said John Andrews, CEO of survey taker Evans Data, in a statement.
The survey found that only 6% of the 380 open source developers polled by Evans Data have adopted GPLv3 since it was published in June. Some 66% said they will not adopt it within the next year, and 43% said they will never use GPLv3.
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By now everybody should know that Linus isn't biting. GPLv2 is more free than v3.
Stallman should have quit while he was ahead. By pushing his political agenda into the license, he’s alienating a large base of the OSS community.
Yep. Despite all the respect and appreciation I have for RMS's work on the GNU software, he's become a ranting, self-righteous twit and is now part of the problem. The world already has plenty of ranting twits.
When were they declared to be that? I guess I didn't get the memo.
We are watching the slow slide into insanity of a person who was once a great programmer. Kind of reminds me of Bobby Fischer.
Now if everyone who uses Stallman’s software and licenses would start trying to replace them like BSD does he might actually be completely mitigated, although I don’t see anyone else actually working to do that.
Some developers might not want to release their code into the wiled without and compensation..
The licence isn’t as important as the software itself.
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