Topic summary
GNU GPL
Extracted from the Wikipedia article GNU General Public License.
Adoption
In March 2015, an analysis of the repositories on GitHub revealed that approximately 25% of licensed projects used the GPL license family. In June 2016, an analysis of the Fedora Project community's packages revealed the GNU GPLv2 or later as the most popular license, and the GNU GPL family as the most popular license family (followed by the MIT, BSD, and GNU LGPL families).