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Re: The sad decline of copyleft software licenses? :(


From: John Sullivan
Subject: Re: The sad decline of copyleft software licenses? :(
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:54:43 -0500

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 06:02:04PM +0800, Pen-Yuan Hsing wrote:
> (2) WHY do copyleft licenses seem to be in steep decline? What are positive,
> constructive solutions to encourage its adoption? Any big success stories
> other than the Linux kernel?

Sorry I missed this thread, but thought I'd still tack on a few links that 
might be of interest for FSF work on the subject:

* 
https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2017/spring/copylefts-decline-a-claim-without-evidence
* https://lwn.net/Articles/731722/
* http://faif.us/cast/2012/feb/28/0x23/
* https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/license_pickers/ (GitHub 
changed the front page of choosealicense.com in response to this)

-john




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