Copyleft has no impact on project activity?!

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 09/14/2008 - 12:24

Recently, I collected some data from Sourceforge, hoping to find evidence for the importance of copyleft. But I found something surprising: although there’s plenty of evidence that many developers believe in the power of copyleft, the one measure I could derive of how much copyleft actually works showed that copyleft made no difference whatsoever!


 

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