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How are Developers Treating License Inconsistency Issues? A Case Study on License Inconsistency Evolution in FOSS Projects
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2017
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
A license inconsistency is the presence of two or more source files that evolved from the same original file containing different licenses. In our previous study, we have shown that license inconsistencies do exist in open source projects and may lead to potential license violation problems. In this study, we try to find out whether the issues of license inconsistencies are properly solved by analyzing two versions of a FOSS distribution-Debian-and investigate the evolution patterns of license
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57735-7_8
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