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Measuring divergence, was: Suggestions of David Nusinow



On 2004-08-24 14:10:42 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

The proportion of the population of debian-legal who believe that the
patch clause exemption in DFSG 4 is a grave mistake or that the GPL is
only free because of DFSG 10 seems greater than in the developer
population at large. That seems like a reasonable approximation of
"extreme".

I see how you could measure this appearance: for example, by using the number of unique posters/developers making such statements compared to the total number of posters/developers; but I'm not sure of the technicalities of doing it. Can you post the methodology and results you used, please? It will be very useful for some other situations.

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