2006/10/26, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
you seem to be unaware that the gpl (any version) represents only a small subset of licenses available.
NO. GPL is _the_ most popular FOSS License.
See http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html
<quote> SourceForge.net reported on November 10, 2003 that the GPL accounted for 71% of the 45,736 projects it hosted with OSI-approved open source licenses (next most popular were the LGPL, 10%, and the BSD licenses, 7%). </quote>
In fact, as of now, the most
popular license appears to be the Mozilla Public License.
Can you provide a link to your claim that Mozilla Public license is the most popular license. You can see Mozilla is not even coming in the first three positions. May be you mis understood the information from opensource.org
<quote> The "classic" licenses, GPL, LGPL, BSD, and MIT, were the most commonly used for open-source software before the Mozilla release in early 1998. The Mozilla Public License has since become widely used. </quote>
It does not imply MPL is the most popular license. Further, i
just went through the draft of v3 - it is a nightmare. If adopted by anyone, it is going to cause endless confusion.
Can you specify which portions are not clear and why you think it causes confution?
V2, on the other hand
was a model of simplicity compared to this.
And it has loop holes which are being exploited by the likes of Tivo.
Compare the gpl to
creative commons licences and you will understand the difference.
Creative commons is meant for digital content and not software.
Regards Praveen