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Industry News Was GPLv3 Worth the Effort?
Approximately 58% of All Open Source Projects Today are Vovered by GPLv2 and 11% by LGPLv2
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jun. 20, 2008 11:00 AM
Adoption has reportedly been growing at about 20% a month over the past six months. According to some figures sent around by Black Duck, approximately 58% of all open source projects today are covered by GPLv2 and 11% by LGPLv2. Most of the widely used open source projects, including Linux, JBoss and Hibernate, remain with version two. “We saw rapid conversion out of the gate on established GPL
projects to version three, more so than adoption by newer projects,” said
Douglas Levin, founder and CEO of Black Duck Software. “It seems that version
two is, simply put, good enough or preferable for some of the bigger projects.
The new provisions of GPLv3, which were mostly around digital rights management
(DRM) and patent infringement, aren’t necessary for most projects. Looking
ahead, we’d expect to see movement to version three to slow to an average
increase of 10% a month, which is still 183% growth for the year. Regardless of
this relative drop-off in movement to GPLv3, there are still likely to be more
than 6,000 projects using the license a year from now. Although we don’t expect
it, these projections could alter substantially if one or more of the major
open source projects currently on GPLv2 were to move to version three.”
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