Analyzing software licenses in open architecture software systems

Author

Alspaugh, Thomas A. ; Asuncion, Hazeline U. ; Scacchi, Walt

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC

fYear

2009

fDate

18-18 May 2009

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

57

Abstract

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 this position paper, we identify key properties of OSS licenses, present a license analysis scheme, and discuss our approach for automatically analyzing license interactions.

Keywords

legislation; public domain software; software architecture; copyright license; independent software vendors; license analysis scheme; open architecture software systems; open source software; property license; software licenses; software-intensive systems; Application software; Architecture description languages; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Guidelines; Licenses; Open source software; Software architecture; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Research and Development, 2009. FLOSS '09. ICSE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3720-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FLOSS.2009.5071361

Filename

5071361