Volume : III, Issue : II, February - 2013

Economic and Social Perspective of Selecting Open Source Software License

Venugopal S. Narsingoju, Dr. S. B. Kishor

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Open source software license is a contract under which any software released is called open source software. In 1980’s, R. Stallman formed free software foundation. It introduced GNU GPL license. Any software which is released under it is open source software and totally free of cost and has equally right to redistribute, inspect and modification of code. It attracted many contributors toward open source software. These also encouraged introducing different types of open source software license. The open source software license introduced different types of benefits. In the end selecting open source software license became a research area. We gather motivation factors of open source software and also factors on which individuals take Decision about selecting open source software license. In this systematic mapping, we accumulate publications on the motivation factors of open source software. In this systematic mapping, we included evaluation research, review paper mostly. Systematic mapping is a method of gathering the research work of a particular area of knowledge. From the motivation factors of open source software, if we find out some other factors which can influence on choice of open source software license, this will become a fruitful increment in knowledge of selecting open source software license.

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Venugopal S. Narsingoju,Dr. S. B. Kishor Economic and Social Perspective of Selecting Open Source Software License Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.II February 2013

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