期刊名称：International Journal of Reviews in Computing
印刷版ISSN：2076-3328
电子版ISSN：2076-3336
出版年度：2011
卷号：7
页码：18-21
出版社：Little Lion Scientific Research and Developement
摘要：Open source software development is a concept of build software by mutual sharing of source code. It is also software which released under such license which gives equal rights to both developers and users. In decade of 1980’s Richard Stallman become pioneer of open source license, because it built a free software foundation, which legalized the above mentioned statement by introduced GNU GPL license. By introducing this open source software license the use, modification and redistribution of source code become legal for both users and developers.This feature of open source software movement becomes blinking star in the closed source software. Therefore developer community becomes highly motivated for providing its services. This feature also encourages the community to introduced more open source software licenses. As a result of this community has developed a number of open source software licenses. Where different open source software licenses provide different features there they provide some restriction also on their licensees. The selection of open source software license is an important task. Anybody which selects a specific open source software license must have some motivational factors which force him in selection of that license.Therefore we conducted a reviewon motivational factors of developers. In this review, we accumulated those motivational factors, which forced an individual to take part in open source software development and those motivational factors on which an individual took decision about selection of open source software license. We analyzed the publications on this topic. These publications provided us the evidences for motivation of developers. The reported motivational factors will help us in designing the survey. This survey will help us in identifying new motivational factors in selection of open source software. This will be a good addition in this knowledge area and will help the practitioners
关键词：Open source software; Closed Source software; Open source software License
