Matching Open Source Software Licenses with Corresponding Business Models

Retrieving Open Source Software Licenses

Leveraging Open Source Licenses and Open Source Communities in Hybrid Commercial Open Source Business Models

The general research idea behind this work is that a framework can be created to describe commercial open source business models as combinations of different criteria. Goal of this paper is to find and describe the criteria by answering the question how software vendors leverage open source software and open source communities as well as multiproduct and multilicense strategies in commercial op...

Software Licenses, Open Source Components, and Open Architectures

A substantial number of enterprises and independent software vendors are adopting a strategy in which software-intensive systems are developed with an open architecture (OA) that may contain open source software (OSS) components or components with open APIs. The emerging challenge is to realize the benefits of openness when components are subject to different copyright or property licenses. In ...

Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses

The purpose of open source and free software licensing is to permit and encourage the involvement by licensees in improvement, modification, and distribution of the licensed work. This open development model of software development is the unique strength of the open source and free software movement. While the open source and free software licenses already discussed approach open software devel...

Product - and Service Related Business Models for Open Source Software

The buzzword “open source software” is gaining in importance and popularity in public, and more and more people are interested in this phenomenon. Yet up until now most of the literature concerning open source has mainly dealt with the technical aspects of the software. The non-technical side, such as discussing the economic aspects in an overall concept, have been neglected thus far. This pape...