期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2011
卷号：25
期号：2
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：Open source software license is a contract under which any software release is called open source software. In 1980�s, R. Stallman formed free software foundation which later introduced GNU GPL license. Any software which is release under this license is called open source software. Open source software is software which is free of cost and provides equal right to both contributors and users to redistribute, inspect and modification of its code. Therefore it has been attracted a large number of contributors from their community toward open source software movement. This also encouraged introducing different types of open source software licenses. Different open source software license introduces different types of benefits for both contributors and users. There are many factors, which can influence on a contributor�s decision about the selection of open source software license. Therefore we gather motivation factors for which a contributor participates in open source software and also gather motivation factors on which a contributor takes decision about selecting open source software license. In this paper we conduct systematic mapping study. In this systematic mapping we accumulate publications on the motivation factors for which contributors participate in open source software and we also accumulate publications on motivation factors which influence on contributors in selection of open source software license. From the frequency of publications we found out the trends in this area of research. In this systematic mapping we included evaluation research, review paper mostly.
关键词：Open Source Software; Open Source Software License; Systematic Mapping
