Evolutional analysis of licenses in FOSS

Y Manabe, Y Hayase, K Inoue - … of the Joint ERCIM Workshop on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the Joint ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL) and …, 2010dl.acm.org
FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) is repeatedly modified and reused by other FOSS
or proprietary software systems. They are released to others under specific licenses whose
terms and conditions are usually written on the source-code files as program comments.
There are a few researches which automatically analyze the licenses in a FOSS release, but
there is no statistical study on the evolution of licenses along the evolution of FOSS. In this
paper, we analyze licenses through FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Eclipse, and ArgoUML evolution …
FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) is repeatedly modified and reused by other FOSS or proprietary software systems. They are released to others under specific licenses whose terms and conditions are usually written on the source-code files as program comments. There are a few researches which automatically analyze the licenses in a FOSS release, but there is no statistical study on the evolution of licenses along the evolution of FOSS. In this paper, we analyze licenses through FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Eclipse, and ArgoUML evolution, using our license analysis tool Ninka, and discuss characteristics on the evolution of the license used in those systems.
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