Empirical Study on Inclusion Relation among Software Licenses of Open Source Software
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Abstract Developers reuse source code files in other project and library to develop large software efficiently. A license of the software must meet their licenses. In this paper, we extract inclusion order among software licenses from open source software. We conducted empirical study using a set of source packages in Fedora 17 as a set of open source software. The result shows that we can extract inclusion order from source package and we can connect these relations. In addition, based on these inclusion relations, we also show that license inconsistency may occur.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012