Paper Info
Title
Open Source Licensing Across Package Dependencies.
Abstract
Licensing dependencies among open source software (oss) packages reveal a lot about software compatibility relationships and the practicalities of oss licensing. There is, however, limited information on these in the literature. In this paper, we discuss various aspects of oss licensing, and we present an empirical study on FreeBSD ports collections concerning their licensing dependencies, in an attempt to identify specific patterns. Our results highlight different types of dependencies, that could be used to explain, or even guide the license selection process of oss projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/PCI.2010.28
Panhellenic Conference on Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
oss licensing,software compatibility relationship,open source software,license selection process,licensing dependency,different type,open source,limited information,package dependencies,oss project,freebsd ports collection,empirical study,law,public domain software
Data mining,Port (computer networking),Software engineering,Computer science,Software,Open source software,Pattern identification,Empirical research,Database,License,Public domain software
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7838-5
3
0.38
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Kechagia1748.36
Diomidis Spinellis22023178.89
Stephanos Androutsellis-Theotokis352923.38