Impacts of License Choice and Organizational Sponsorship on User Interest and Development Activity in Open Source Software Projects

By K. Stewart, Anthony P. Ammeter, Likoebe Mohau Maruping. Information systems research, 2006

295 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications

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In Communication

1. Stefan Haefliger
2. Georgvon Krogh
3. Martin W. Wallin
4. Sebastian Spaeth
5. Yulin Fang
6. Derrick J. Neufeld
7. Jae Yun Moon
8. Jungpil Hahn

In Computer Science Applications

1. Georgvon Krogh
2. Stefan Haefliger
3. Martin W. Wallin
4. Yulin Fang
5. Sebastian Spaeth
6. Derrick J. Neufeld
7. Jae Yun Moon
8. Jungpil Hahn

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects (2009, background): “Over the last decade, this intriguing software development paradigm has attracted academic and corporate attention [54, 58].”
• Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development (2012, background): “It has also been found that license restriction impacts on developers’ motivations, in the sense that less restrictive licenses tend to attract more development activity to a project (Fershtman and Gandal 2007; Stewart et al. 2006).”
• Emergence of New Project Teams from Open Source Software Developer Networks: Impact of Prior Collaboration Ties (2008, background): “Recent research has begun to examine how factors such as the restrictiveness of the software distribution license and nature of organizational sponsorship may interact in influencing user interest and developer motivations to contribute to established OSSD projects (Stewart et al. 2006).”