License usage and changes: a large-scale study on gitHub
Christopher Vendome, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Daniel German, Denys Poshyvanyk
2016
Empirical Software Engineering
Specifically, we first identify licenses' changes in 39,563,885 commits, representing the entire history of 51,757 projects hosted on GitHub written in C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. ...
Then, to understand the rationale of license changes, we perform a qualitative analysis-following an open coding approach inspired by grounded theory-on commit notes and issue tracker discussions concerning ...
, and (ii) they had at least one star (i.e., at least one user expressed appreciation for the repository) or watcher (i.e., at least one user asked to receive notification about changes made in the repository ...
doi:10.1007/s10664-016-9438-4
fatcat:ncpk7r36lrgrfmnscac6ah4apm