[okfn-discuss] The GitHub generation

Sun Jul 21 18:26:26 UTC 2013

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 02:27:12PM -0300, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote:
> "The younger generation of developers increasingly eschews formal
> licensing requirements for their GitHub projects, a trend Redmonk
> analyst James Governor calls "post open source software." While some
> will celebrate a full 77% of GitHub projects going commando on
> licensing, new research from Black Duck Software suggests that this
> license-free approach comes with as much as $59 billion in hidden
> costs."

my 1st thought was, that there must be a strong language bias in this data. i
bet ruby is more affected by this than c++ projects. it would be nice to have
access to all the stats.

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