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even more pronounced when you look at web software. look at the most watched projects on Github and play spot the GPL license: https://github.com/popular/watched I couldn't count a single project. I have never used the GPL in any software I write because I want anybody to be able to use my software and contributions. Google, Microsoft, Apple (who are actively purging what remains of GPL code) et al will not adapt your project for bundling or distribution or use if it is GPL. I think most developers are more interested in having users of their software than attempting to shoehorn them into some ideology, which is reflected in the license usage stats you see. to add to that, the FSF completely screwed up v3 which likely scared away anybody who was on the fence about which way to go (it was also more to do with the anti-commercial rhetoric a

Have a look at the top projects on Github and note that most (all?) are MIT or BSD licesed: https://github.com/popular/watched Modern web developers don't seem to care and prefer to keep it simple. The GPL definitely hasn't adapted well to a web world.

https://github.com/popular/watched almost every one of those projects is BSD/MIT licensed

They are top 10 on Github: https://github.com/popular/watched

Alternatively https://github.com/popular/watched

Yep. I'm a pragmatist at heart. I don't think that either Underscore.js or Backbone.js would have gotten the same sort of adoption they've seen (eg. github.com/popular/watched) if they had been written in CoffeeScript. Perhaps in a year or two it would be different.

I don't know how useful this is, in the case of gems, but you can see the 30 (I think) most popular projects on github, based on number of forks or watchers: http://github.com/popular/forked http://github.com/popular/watched

Also, check out the list of the most watched projects. Ruby and Rails seem to dominate there: http://github.com/popular/watched