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Conversions to GPLv3 from v2… Moving Slowly

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Matt Asay
Jul 11, 2007

“Palamida has been tracking the movement of open source projects
from GPLv2 to GPLv3 and estimates that 119 projects have converted
(to GPL/LGPLv3), which represents less than 1% of GPL’d projects.
(You can view the list of projects here.) Nothing to write home
about, in other words.

“Why is the uptake so tepid? Well, the rampant FUD around v3
probably helped, but I don’t think that’s the main issue…”

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