An observation that we made several times before is finally stated (or echoed) in the press. Acceptance of the new GNU GPL licence is by no means slow. Its pace of adoption is limited by the frequency of releases. This should be very obvious, but those that antagonise the new license are adding a spin to make it seem as though GPLv3 is not welcomed.

Bui-Friday believes that many companies will move to the new licence but only at a timely juncture. “It’s very rare that a software project will go through the trouble and expense of cutting a new version just for a new licence. Typically, what we’ve heard is that the next version they cut they will go [with GPL3],” she said.

Palamida had over 5,000 projects listed for upgrade intent. Think of it as the lower bound on the number of projects that will eventually be GPLv3-licensed.

GPLv3 is here to stay, to thrive, and for everyone to accept (yes, you too, Microsoft... and even OpenSUSE).

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