Friday, 28 September 2007

GPLv3 Adoption Dull, Developers Shunning From It

According to a new survey by Evans Data, developers are shying away from adopting the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3). In fact they have been slow to adopt it....

According to a new survey by Evans Data, developers are shying away from adopting the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3). In fact they have been slow to adopt it.

The survey, released Sept. 25 shows that only 6 per cent of developers working on open-source software have adopted GPLv3. The Evans Data Open Source Software Development survey also shows that two-thirds of the developers surveyed said they will not adopt GPLv3 next year, and 43 per cent say they will never implement the new license. In addition, almost twice as many would be less likely to join a project that implements GPLv3 than would be more likely to join, the survey of nearly 400 developers shows.

"GPLv3 is controversial because it imposes restrictions on what you can do with programs implemented under this license," John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data, said in a statement. "Developers are confused and divided about those restrictions."