Black Duck examines GPLv3 trends
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Black Duck Software marked the first anniversary of the release of GPLv3 with a study of trends in its use. They find that 2345 open source projects have opted to use the license, but that the majority remains with version 2: roughly 58% of FOSS projects use the GPLv2 and 11% the LGPLv2, including popular projects like Linux, JBoss and Hibernate.