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IWPC
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Understanding and Auditing the Licensing of Open Source Software Distributions
—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...
Daniel M. Germán, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ju...
ICEGOV
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Analysis of popular open source licenses and their applicability to e-governance
The paper analyses existing open source licenses with the aim of choosing a license that is suitable for e-Governance projects. A method is presented for systematically choosing t...
Jaijit Bhattacharya, Sourabh Suman
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 9 months ago
License integration patterns: Addressing license mismatches in component-based development
In this paper we address the problem of combining software components with different and possibly incompatible legal licenses to create a software application that does not viola...
Daniel M. Germán, Ahmed E. Hassan
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
13 years 9 months ago
An exploratory study of the evolution of software licensing
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...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Ya...
MSR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Identifying licensing of jar archives using a code-search approach
—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...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. Germán, Gi...