Re: Statistics for licenses?
Hello,
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 09:10 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
>
> I am looking for some statistics of the [main] licenses used in Debian
> packages (or some statistics about the license used in open-source
> software at large).
>
> Are you aware of such analyze?
FWIW,
I have found those statistics: http://blackducksoftware.com/oss
I don't really trust those statistics (ok, I never trust statistics
anyway;) because:
- CC-** and GFDL aren't listed at all, so documentation isn't included.
- All BSD variants are aggregated (improperly analyzed)
- Freeware / Public domain aren't listed
- Python isn't listed, etc.
Creative commons has some statistics about their own licenses:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_statistics
Freshmeat used to provide some statistics (click on a date):
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://freshmeat.net/stats/
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