An empirical study on decision making in off-the-shelf component-based development
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Exploring auction databases through interactive visualization
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The empirical commit frequency distribution of open source projects
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
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This paper develops and tests a model of the impact of licensing restrictiveness and organizational sponsorship on the popularity and vitality of open source software (OSS) development projects. Using data gathered from Freshmeat.net and OSS project home pages the main conclusions derived from the analysis are that organizational sponsorship has a positive effect on project popularity by easing user concerns about cost and quality and that license restrictiveness may have a negative effect on popularity by reducing the perceived utility of open source software. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and the paper outlines several avenues for future research.