Articles for deletion/List of programs released under the GPL

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below 6 July 2005 02:07 (UTC)

==List of programs released under the GPL==

Unmaintainable. If it is done, it will be too huge, which makes it hard to read. Use [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=GNU_General_Public_License What links here of the GPL article] if you want a list of GPLed software 06:11, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Keep. As much as I might disagree, if we re gonna vote to keep the 06:21, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Delete. This is more suitable as a category, not as an article. | *Keep, but change the title to include notable or well-known, otherwise it s misleading 13:50, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Categorise it. -- 13:52, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Categorize it. 13:55, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Keep per Jamesgibbon. 14:36, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Keep, do not categorize. Rename and/or add a header to indicate that not every single GPL program needs to be on there. But subcategorizing programs by license is overcat ing. 22:08, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC) *Unmaintainable. Categorize. 23:56, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Delete. I agree with the nominator. This sets a precedent for lists of software released under all the available licenses, and you ve only got to look at the image copyrights page to see what a mess that would make. If kept, do not categorify. - 23:59, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC) *Categorise. As a matter of policy every GPLed program with an article on Wikipedia is notable . 00:00, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

13:41, 2005 Jun 26 (UTC)

*Categorize. This is good information but would be much more suitable in category form. The suggestion that people use What links here on the GPL article is ridiculous; that s non-obvious, additional work, and will give lots of irrelevant results. 07:57, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Strong categorize. This is why we have categories. — 14:03, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Categorical keep, do not categorize. — ) 28 June 2005 08:07 (UTC) *Categorize - easier to maintain. - June 29, 2005 22:19 (UTC) *Categorize. Some pages don t make it clear that they re talking about GPL software. A list on another page does not make that clear either. Categorization would. 1 July 2005 12:13 (UTC) *Categorize - this would be perfectly appropriate as a category. That would also guarantee it only included notable programs. July 2, 2005 16:02 (UTC)