Determinants of the choice of open source software license

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-240

  Sen, Ravi ^a   Subramaniam, Chandrasekar ^b   Nelson, Matthew L ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Copyleft; Copyright; FLOSS; Open source; OSS; Software license

Indexed keywords

COPYRIGHTS; MANAGERS; MOTIVATION; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COPYLEFT; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION; FLOSS; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE LICENSE;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 66549100192     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222250306     Document Type: Article

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