Copyright in Open Source Software - Understanding the Boundaries

Understanding Open Source Software Evolution

Copyright versus Patents: the Open Source Software Legal Battle

Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. In contrast, we argue how intellectual property law is at the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for the devel...

Understanding Requirements for Open Source Software

This study presents findings from an empirical study directed at understanding the roles, forms, and consequences arising in requirements within open source software development efforts. Four open source software development communities are described, examined, and compared to help discover what these differences may be. At least two dozen kinds of software informalisms are found to play a crit...

Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes

Walt Scacchi, Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald*, Scott Hissam and Karim Lakhani 1 Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, USA 2 Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Ireland 3 Computer Science and Information Systems, Limerick University, Ireland 4 Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA 5 Sloan School of Management, Massachuset...

Understanding Requirements for Open Source Software

This study presents findings from an empirical study directed at understanding the roles, forms, and consequences arising in requirements for open source software (OSS) development efforts. Five open source software development communities are described, examined, and compared to help discover what differences may be observed. At least two dozen kinds of software informalisms are found to play ...