Misinformation/Disinformation Disguised as Information About GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL) Usage
Microsoft Black Duck used to do lots of this
The other day we mentioned an article whose sole purpose seemed to be myth-spreading and FUD about the GPL.
The man behind Blender, a prominent adopter of the GPL (turning proprietary software into Free software and rejecting GitHub for very good reasons), has since linked to it and the FUD was reproduced in replies:
It's not clear what source - if any - was used to make the assertion above. Going by well-referenced material that cites Mac Asay (who is GPL-hostile; he turned that way after a lot of brainwashing) as early as 2009 - just 2 years after GPLv3 had been launched - GPLv3 hit 50 percent adoption.
If one goes by Microsoft's GitHub (a Microsoft-biased subset of the whole) and adds slop disguised as real code, then maybe GPL doesn't seem that big. But if one looks outside GitHub, which is proprietary, then copyleft (or GPL) is very widespread. Slop ('vibe') should not count as anything, as it's just plagiarism and GPL violations.
On the Web, anyone can say all sorts of nonsense. In social control media, as above, anyone can lazily relay such nonsense.
GPL-type licences (reciprocal obligations) remain dominant. Some of the best known projects - including Linux - use the GPL. █