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> More of the open source world does just fine without the GPL than you'd care to admit.

60% of projects on Freshmeat use the GNU GPL. If you include other copyleft licenses, such as the LGPL, this is nearer 70%. -- http://freshmeat.net/stats/#license

Copylefted software includes such important projects as:

The Linux kernel.

Languages such as: C, C++, Objective C, Ada (all through gcc); Java.

Database engines: MySQL.

GUIs and toolkits such as: Qt, KDE, GTK+, GNOME.

GCC is particularly important, because nearly all open source projects are compiled with it or written in languages whose implementation uses GCC.



Look, I wasn't going to list out every popular open source project that doesn't use the GPL and I never claimed that there aren't useful projects that do use the GPL. I simply wanted to counter the mistaken notion that software without a GPL license sits in some small niche and all such projects have small inferior communities.

That being said, Freshmeat is a horrible way to support whatever point you were trying to make.


When exactly did I say all BSD-licensed software have small inferior communities? do I write so poorly people have trouble parsing my posts?




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