How do licenses participate in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) community life? This paper aims at answering this question. Despite the dynamic character of FLOSS development...
Stefano De Paoli, Maurizio Teli, Vincenzo D'Andrea
—Free and open source software (FOSS) is often distributed in binary packages, sometimes part of GNU/Linux operating system distributions, or part of products distributed/sold to...
—Free and open source software strongly promotes the reuse of source code. Some open source Java components/libraries are distributed as jar archives only containing the bytecode...
Some free software and open source projects have been extremely successful in the past. The success of a project is often related to the number of developers it can attract: a larg...
Free and open source software (FOSS) is distributed and made available to users under different software licenses, mentioned in FOSS code by means of licensing statements. Variou...