Reusing Open Source Code

The reuse of existing code through their software developers is critical for firms to ensure efficient development of high-quality software. A recent facet of this topic is the increasing importance of reusing open source code which is often available free of charge via download from the internet, but brings along legal risks through its licenses. In this setting Manuel Sojer empirically investigates which factors influence software developers to reuse open source code and what causes them to comply with the resulting license obligations or not.

Autorentext
Dr. Manuel Sojer has been a researcher and lecturer at the Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management of Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel (Technische Universität München).

Inhalt

Knowledge Reuse and Code Reuse; Open Source Software and its Development; Open Source Software Licenses; Determinants of Code Reuse; Determinants of License Violations