An investigation into the impact of software licenses on copy-and-paste reuse among OSS projects

Y Kashima, Y Hayase, N Yoshida… - 2011 18th Working …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2011 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2011ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because licensing an open source software (OSS) product restricts its reuse, the developer
of the product has to consider the impact on reuse when choosing the license. However, to
the best of our knowledge, there are no quantitative studies on the impact of software
licenses on software reuse. To identify the impact, this paper presents a quantitative
investigation into the relationship between the software license and copy-and-paste reuse
on actual OSS products. The results show that the license of a product affects the frequency …
Because licensing an open source software (OSS) product restricts its reuse, the developer of the product has to consider the impact on reuse when choosing the license. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no quantitative studies on the impact of software licenses on software reuse. To identify the impact, this paper presents a quantitative investigation into the relationship between the software license and copy-and-paste reuse on actual OSS products. The results show that the license of a product affects the frequency of reuse. On the other hand, copy-and-paste reuse occurs mostly in the source files distributed under the same license.
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