GPL Project Watch List for the Week of 10/26/07

The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for October 20th through October 26th, 2007.


X-mas in October

Even though the holiday for this month is Halloween, it feels like Christmas, at least for the GPL v3. As of October 26th, 7:30pm PST our database contains 1000 GPL v3 projects, as compared to last weeks figure of 898 GPL v3 projects. We made a major push to hit the long awaited milestone of 1k GPL v3 projects before the months end, adding 102 GPL v3 projects to our database. This milestone is a strong statement that the GPL v3 is becoming an influential license in the open source world. With more projects and developers adopting the license by the day, we do not expect adoption to slow down anytime soon. We will continue to track the adoption of the GPL v3 with much thanks to all of the developers who help us keep our numbers accurate and up to date. Again we cannot express our gratitude to the community for helping us along in this tracking project.





New project conversions this week include:

Snippits: This is Ruby program that will type text for you. It uses 'snippits', small text files with a simple syntax to determine what to type.
Anchor: a genealogical data parser (GEDCOM and genxml). Can convert, search, and view large files that cause many other programs to crash.
geoip: looks up a GeoIP database from http://www.maxmind.com/ to provide geographical data for an IP address or hostname. The free GeoIP database only contains country data, but the subscription-based GeoIPCity database is also supported.
listen2fritz: provides real-time notification of incoming calls on an AVM FRITZ!Box Fon. The notifications are sent by way of a Dream-Multimedia-TV Dreambox or an instant messenger program.
Site Map Generator: a platform-independent site map generator. It crawls a Web site starting from a given URL, and outputs an XML sitemap file that you can use for Google or other search engines.



In the News
Medsphere now says open source will make it dominant
"We're the only open source provider in health care IT." As a result Medsphere Systems Corp. of Aliso Viejo believes it will one day be the biggest.
http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=401





Notable Mention

Palamida actively takes submissions from visitors on updates on new GPL v3/LGPL 3 projects. We are amazed at the number of submissions we have gotten to date, but even more so, we are incredibly grateful to over 100 core contributors who have devoted their time and resources at helping us provide up-to-date information.


The 1K Milestone

I wish to extend gratitude to all of our the supporters of our site that have helped shape and mold what we deliver. While we neither advocate for or against the use of the GPLv3 license and its variants, our goal from the first day has been to provide a reliable source for unambiguous information regarding the evolving support of this license.

As we cross this significant threshold in the current history of the GPLv3 license, we can stop the speculation regarding whether developers will adopt this license, and instead, speculate on how soon and how fast the rest will switch over.



Ernest Park

GPL Project Watch List for Week of 10/19/07

The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for October 13th through October 19th, 2007.





October World Series


As of October 19th, 1pm PST, our database contained 898 GPL v3 projects, as compared to last weeks number on October 12th of 833 GPL v3 projects. This is a larger than average increase of 65 GPL v3 projects which puts us on the brink of 900 GPL v3 projects and closer to the important milestone of 1000 GPL v3 projects. As the month draws closer to an end, we are getting closer to hitting 1000 GPLv3 projects, and we appreciate all the support and contributions the visitors have made to our GPLv3 tracking site. The LGPL v3 numbers are still growing but at a slower rate. The LGP v3 list is now at 84 LGPL v3 projects as compared to 82 LGPL v3 projects last week. In other news, the "GPL v2 or later" list is currently at 5746 "GPL v2 or later" projects.








New project conversions this week include:
Grester: a Maven2 Plugin for the Jester Tool, written entirely in Groovy. It was born out of a need to quickly test junit tests with Jester from within Maven projects.
Gazest: a wiki inspired by Git and Mercurial. It preserves the full history graph of every revision to enable branching and merging. The look and feel is trivial to change.
Todop: a cgi python script implementing a simple GTD (get things Done) todolist.



In the News
Ubuntu to release v7.10 of its desktop, server OSS.

The latest desktop and server editions of the free, open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system will be released on Thursday. They will offer a range of improvements designed for their particular users.http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9042882&intsrc=hm_list







Notable Mention

Palamida actively takes submissions from visitors on updates on new GPL v3/LGPL 3 projects. We are amazed at the number of submissions we have gotten to date, but even more so, we are incredibly grateful to the almost 100 core contributors who have devoted their time and resources at helping us provide up-to-date information.



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Antony Tran Project Manager, Think Tank Group Palamida, Inc.