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2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Free and Open Source Licenses in Community Life: Two Empirical Cases
How do licenses participate in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community life? This paper aims at answering this question. Despite the dynamic character of FLOSS development...
Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli, Vincenzo D'Andrea
IWPC
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding and Auditing the Licensing of Open Source Software Distributions
—Free and open source software (FOSS) is often distributed in binary packages, sometimes part of GNU/Linux operating system distributions, or part of products distributed/sold to...
Daniel M. Germán, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ju...
MSR
2010
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Identifying licensing of jar archives using a code-search approach
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Gi...
OSS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
From the Cathedral to the Bazaar: An Empirical Study of the Lifecycle of Volunteer Community Projects
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
Andrea Capiluppi, Martin Michlmayr
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
14 years 14 days ago
An exploratory study of the evolution of software licensing
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Ya...