Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Understanding open source software development
Understanding open source software development
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
Enabling Customer-Centricity Using Wikis and the Wiki Way
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Empirical study of the effects of open source adoption on software development economics
Journal of Systems and Software
A Strategic Analysis of Competition Between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Open source software licenses: Strong-copyleft, non-copyleft, or somewhere in between?
Decision Support Systems
Task Design, Motivation, and Participation in Crowdsourcing Contests
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
The Impact of Network Externalities on the Competition Between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Journal of Management Information Systems
Open source software success: Measures and analysis
Decision Support Systems
Strategies for software-based hybrid business models
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communication Networks in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
The attraction of contributors in free and open source software projects
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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In this paper, we examine how the motivations and attitudes of open source software (OSS) developers affect their preference among the three common OSS license types-Strong-Copyleft, Weak-Copyleft, and Non-Copyleft. Despite the importance of the license type and developers to OSS projects, there is little understanding in open source literature of the license choice from a developer's perspective. The results from our empirical study of OSS developers reveal that the intrinsic motivation of challenge (problem solving) is associated with the developers' preference for licenses with moderate restrictions, while the extrinsic motivation of status (through peer recognition) is associated with developers' preference for licenses with least restrictions. We also find that when choosing an OSS license, a developer's attitude toward the software redistribution rights conflicts with his or her attitude toward preserving the social benefits of open source. A major implication of our findings is that OSS managers who want to attract a limited number of highly skilled programmers to their open source project should choose a restrictive OSS license. Similarly, managers of software projects for social programs could attract more developers by choosing a restrictive OSS license.