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A Dual Model of Open Source License Growth

  • 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.

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Author:Gottfried Hofmann, Dirk Riehle, Carsten Kolassa, Wolfgang MauererORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38928-3_18
Parent Title (English):Open Source Software: Quality Verification : 9th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2013, Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia, June 25-28, 2013, Proceedings
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2013
Release Date:2022/05/26
Tag:Dual Model; Free Software Foundation; Open Source; Open Source License
Volume:404
First Page:245
Last Page:256
Institutes:Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Labor für Digitalisierung (LFD)
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
Publication:Externe Publikationen
research focus:Digitalisierung
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG