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Predicting Open Source Licensing

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Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 23, 2007

“What’s the most popular open source license currently in use?
If you said GPL you would be right. But how did you know?

“Plenty of people assume that GPL is the most commonly used
because that’s what a simple search of the SourceForge.net online
repository brings up.

“Now, licensing detection software vendor Black Duck is jumping
into the fray by providing a public resource that includes the
benefit of Black Duck’ efforts detailing open source license
usage…”

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