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Evolutional analysis of licenses in FOSS

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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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Evolutional analysis of licenses in FOSS
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Software version control
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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September 2010

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DOI:10.1145/1862372

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Andrea Capiluppi
University of East London, UK
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Anthony Cleve
ERCIM Fellow, INRIA Lille, France
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Naouel Moha
University of Rennes 1, France

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