Matching open source software licenses with corresponding business models

IEEE Software

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 31-35

  Lindman, Juho ^a   Rossi, Matti ^a   Paajanen, Anna ^a  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

copyrights; intellectual property; licensing; open source software; oss; stacks

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS GOALS; BUSINESS MODELS; BUSINESS SUCCESS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; OSS; STACKS; START-UPS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COPYRIGHTS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959728992     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2011.50     Document Type: Article

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