[okfn-discuss] [open-science] SPARC author addendum uses CC-NC licence and now all hybrid publishers have followed

Gael Varoquaux gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org
Fri Dec 23 13:12:58 UTC 2011


On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 06:53:50PM +0000, Rob Myers wrote:
> > In Open Source community (and many of those don't have permanent jobs)
> > it's standard to use BSD-like licences. There is only one group using
> > GPL (SA-like) and that's because they have inherited it. They hate it
> > and are actively working to rewrite the whole system.

> The GPL is the most widely used Free Software licence.

It is going down:
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/files/gplusage.png

Gael




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