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GPL v3 blows out first candle

By Robert Mullins

June 27, 2008 — (Page 1 of 3)
As it marks its first anniversary, the GNU General Public License v3 has drawn the interest of more than 3,000 open-source software projects, a number that could double by its second birthday, according to one company that’s keeping score. Although that’s tiny compared to the number of GPL v2 licenses, a spokesperson for the leading advocate of GPL v3 said that its adoption rate is a sign of success.

The Free Software Foundation released GPL v3, the latest scheme for governing the use of open-source software, on June 29, 2007, after 18 months of deliberation. It was intended to simplify Byzantine language in GPL v2 and more assertively advance the cause of free—as in able to be freely used—software. But while backers are impressed that GPL v3 projects are growing at the rate of about 20% a month, most GPL v2 licensees are unlikely to quickly migrate to GPL v3.

“We have nothing against GPL v3, but we still see most of the market using GPL v2,” said Yves de Montcheuil, vice president of marketing for Talend, a provider of data integration software. “We feel no need to be the first ones to make a move.”

The first moves have already been made. SugarCRM, a maker of free and open-source customer relationship management software, was one of the first adopters, switching to GPL v3 from its own Sugar Public License as soon as GPL v3 took effect. The Linux distribution Ubuntu is also an early adopter, as is the Funambol development platform, which adopts a dual-licensing model of both open-source and commercial versions of its software.

Black Duck Software, whose software helps customers manage their open-source software, has been tracking GPL v3 adoption over the last year and sees some interesting trends. A list on its Web site identified 3,069 GPL v3 projects as of today. In the last six months, the number of projects using GPL v3 has grown by roughly one-fifth of the previous month’s figure. That growth may slow to 10% a month as pent-up demand for v3 is satisfied, said Doug Levin, Black Duck’s CEO, but it’s still “an impressive number.” Levin predicts that 6,000 projects will be licensed under GPL v3 by its second anniversary.

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