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== Reception == {{As of |2020}}, according to WhiteSource Software<ref name="whitesource2020">{{cite web | url=https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/top-open-source-licenses-trends-and-predictions | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200503111426/https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/top-open-source-licenses-trends-and-predictions | archive-date=2020-05-03 | date=2020-05-03 | access-date=2020-05-03 | title=Open Source Licenses in 2020: Trends and Predictions}}</ref> the MIT license was used in 27% of four million open source packages. {{As of|2015}}, according to Black Duck Software<ref name="blackduck2015">{{cite web |url=http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data/top-20-licenses |quote=1. MIT license 24%, 2. GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 23% |title=Top 20 licenses |publisher=Black Duck Software |access-date=19 November 2015 |date=19 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904051147/http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data/top-20-licenses |archive-date=4 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Source is very informal and in contradiction with Das 2016; no methodology or explanation is given as to how 'or later' licenses are being considered.|date=November 2016}} and a 2015 blog<ref name="github2015">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/blog/1964-license-usage-on-github-com |quote=1 MIT 44.69%, 2 Other 15.68%|title=Open source license usage on GitHub.com |date=2015-03-09 |first=Ben |last=Balter |access-date=2015-11-21 |website=The GitHub Blog }}</ref> from [[GitHub]], the MIT license was the most popular [[open-source license]], with the [[GNU GPLv2]] coming second in their sample of repositories.
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