An exploratory study of the evolution of software licensing

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 145-154

  Di Penta, Massimiliano ^a   German, Daniel M ^b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^c   Antoniol, Giuliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

empirical study; evolution; mining software repositories; open source systems; software licenses

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL CODES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; SOFTWARE LICENSE; SOFTWARE LICENSING; TRACK CHANGES;

BIOLOGY; OPEN SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77954705115     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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