Development success in open source software projects: Exploring the impact of copylefted licenses

Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 2845-2852

  Colazo, Jorge A ^a   Fang, Yulin ^a   Neufeld, Derrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Copyleft; Intellectual property; Membership; Open source software; Productivity; Software development; Software licensing

Indexed keywords

COPYLEFT; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; KEY INDICATOR; MEMBERSHIP; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; PROJECT SUCCESS; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; SOFTWARE LICENSING; SOURCE CODES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870044893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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