Your Work in Open Source, Three Years of Incremental Change
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Data come from Google Code search crawl plus project hosting and cover about 3 billion lines of code after deduplicating mirrors and copies. Findings: major licenses converge on GPLv3 majority with increases in GPL, LGPL, BSD, Apache and MIT while niche licenses decline; AGPL adds ~30,000 files but sits near the noise floor. Language shifts show JavaScript surging and C/C++ and Perl softening as Go and scripting languages rise. Organizational contributors cluster around major foundations and vendors.
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