From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jonas Bernoulli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Some hard numbers on licenses used by elisp packages Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:29:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87shi4z7ps.fsf@bernoul.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499696968 22070 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2017 14:29:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:29:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 25.2.1 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 10 16:29:18 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUZgb-0005Cd-V8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:29:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41072 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUZgh-0007Rr-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:29:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUZga-0007RR-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUZgX-0005r0-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:29:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.hostpark.net ([212.243.197.30]:33914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUZgW-0005mr-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.hostpark.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6276316BAE for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:29:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by Hostpark/NetZone Mailprotection at hostpark.net Original-Received: from mail.hostpark.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.hostpark.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10124) with ESMTP id dMD8fqB8BW3Z for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:29:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from desktop (77-58-214-193.dclient.hispeed.ch [77.58.214.193]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.hostpark.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3507A16710 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:29:08 +0200 (CEST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.243.197.30 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216411 Archived-At: Hello, While the current discussions focus on copyright assignments, I think it would be a good idea to have some statistics on what licenses are being used by Emacs packages. Luckily answering such questions is one of the many use cases of the Emacsmirror [1], which I maintain. Here are the licenses used by packages that are available from Melpa: | License | Count | Percent | |---------------+-------+---------| | GPL-3 | 2268 | 62 | | GPL-2 | 634 | 17 | | (unknown) | 509 | 14 | | as-is | 117 | 3 | | MIT | 45 | 1 | | public-domain | 41 | 1 | | GPL | 29 | 1 | | Apache-2.0 | 18 | 0 | | GPL-1 | 4 | 0 | | BSD | 3 | 0 | | CeCILL-B | 2 | 0 | | EPL | 1 | 0 | | MS-PL | 1 | 0 | |---------------+-------+---------| | total GPL | 2935 | 80 | |---------------+-------+---------| | total | 3672 | 100 | You can find more such tables on [2], along with some notes on how this information was obtained and more. [1] https://emacsmirror.net [2] https://emacsmirror.net/stats/licenses.html Best regards, Jonas