Bernhard Reiter bernhard@intevation.de writes:
(I don't know why they allow proprietory licenses....., I always thought they did not, but obviously someone should inquire otherwise the brand sourceforge for free software is damaged.)
I suspect that proprietary means that it's their own (YAOSL?) licence, not that it's commercial software. Perhaps sourceforge is for Open Source rather than Free software?
Unfortunalty I have not found an easy method to get the license distribution of the freshmeat database. (I have send them mail and asked for it today.)
I updated my copy of their applist today. The votes are:
7889 GPL 594 freelydistributable 589 LGPL 490 BSDtype 459 Freeware 435 OpenSource 303 freetousebutrestricted 299 freefornon-commercialuse 225 Artistic 208 PublicDomain 150 proprietary 126 FreeTrial 109 Artistic&GPL 72 Shareware 67 MIT 65 Apachestyle 53 MPL 44 QPL 33 source-availableproprietary 25 unknown 17 EiffelForumFreewareLicense 6 ThePHPLicense 4 IBMPublicLicense 2 VoxelPublicLicense 2 SunCommunitySourceLicensing 2 FreeWorldLicence 2 AFPL 1 X11/System 1 X11/Education 1 SUNBinaryCodeLicense 1 NPL
Apologies for the lack of spaces, but my applist is a cooked copy for another project.
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:47:31PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
Bernhard Reiter bernhard@intevation.de writes:
(I don't know why they allow proprietory licenses....., I always thought they did not, but obviously someone should inquire otherwise the brand sourceforge for free software is damaged.)
I suspect that proprietary means that it's their own (YAOSL?) licence, not that it's commercial software.
Free Software and commercial does not exclude each other. You mean that they own the license?
Perhaps sourceforge is for Open Source rather than Free software?
The widely accepted criteria of software being regarded free or open are (almost) the same. So there is no difference. There is a difference in the movement.
Unfortunalty I have not found an easy method to get the license distribution of the freshmeat database. (I have send them mail and asked for it today.)
I updated my copy of their applist today.
Cool. Thanks.
The votes for free software are:
7889 GPL 589 LGPL 490 BSDtype 435 OpenSource 208 PublicDomain 109 Artistic&GPL 67 MIT 65 Apachestyle 53 MPL 44 QPL 25 unknown 17 EiffelForumFreewareLicense 6 ThePHPLicense 4 IBMPublicLicense 1 X11/System 1 X11/Education 1 NPL
Apologies for the lack of spaces, but my applist is a cooked copy for another project.
No problem. Thanks. Bernhard