An economic perspective on software licenses - Open source, maintainers and user-developers

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 111-133

  Edwards, Kasper ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Incentives and economics; Licenses; Open source software

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COPYRIGHTS; COSTS; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE; EULA; OPEN SOURCE; SOFTWARE LICENSES;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 7444225899     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2004.06.009     Document Type: Article

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