Licenses of Open Source Software and their Economic Values

Over the past few years, Microsoft has promoted a project called 'Shared Source Initiative', which allows certain customers (e.g., research institutions and independent software vendors) access to its source code on a restricted basis. As part of this ...

Studies on open source software (OSS) have shown that the license under which an OSS is released has an impact on the success or failure of the software. In this paper, we model the relationship between an OSS developer's utility, the effort that goes ...

Scores of software producers have turned toward open source licenses to improve service for their customers. For these companies, choosing the correct license determines business success. When the available open source stack and licensing options grow, ...