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：2019
卷号：97
期号：24
页码：3868-3878
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：Open-source software development widely used the practice of software engineering now a day. It is needed to explore the motivational factors for the selection of open source software licenses. The objective of this research is to find out the motivational factors for the selection of open source software licenses concerning economic and social perspectives. Literature reported motivational factors are verified. Types of different aspects of OSS license selection do not include in the scope of this study. The research question answered through the survey research method. We floated the survey in both local (Pakistani) and international open-source software development community. The results show motivational factors for open source software license selection with respect to economic and social perspectives according to the expectations of local (Pakistani) and international open-source software development community. Literature reported motivational factors verified in this study. There is no significant way/process to adopt any open source software license. To choose an OSS license from a huge OSS license population is concerned about the behavior of decision-maker personals. These motivational factors are those on which the open-source software development community has made their choice of the open-source software license.
关键词：Open Source Software; Open Source Software Development; Open Source Software License; Open Source Software Development Community; Free Software
