TY - CHAP A1 - Hofmann, Gottfried A1 - Riehle, Dirk A1 - Kolassa, Carsten A1 - Mauerer, Wolfgang T1 - A Dual Model of Open Source License Growth T2 - Open Source Software: Quality Verification : 9th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2013, Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia, June 25-28, 2013, Proceedings N2 - Every open source project needs to decide on an open source license. This decision is of high economic relevance: Just which license is the best one to help the project grow and attract a community? The most common question is: Should the project choose a restrictive (reciprocal) license or a more permissive one? As an important step towards answering this question, this paper analyses actual license choice and correlated project growth from ten years of open source projects. It provides closed analytical models and finds that around 2001 a reversal in license choice occurred from restrictive towards permissive licenses. KW - Dual Model KW - Free Software Foundation KW - Open Source KW - Open Source License Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38928-3_18 VL - 404 SP - 245 EP - 256 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER -