Title :
When open source turns cold on innovation — The challenges of navigating licensing complexities in new research domains
Author :
Forbes, Christopher ; Keivanloo, Iman ; Rilling, Juergen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
In this poster, we review the limitations open source licences introduce to the application of Linked Data in Software Engineering. We investigate whether open source licences support special requirements to publish source code as Linked Data on the Internet.
Keywords :
Internet; public domain software; software engineering; Internet; licensing complexities; linked data in software engineering; open source licences; Complexity theory; Databases; Law; Licenses; Software; Software engineering; Linked Data; license; open source; source code;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (ICSE), 2012 34th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1066-6
Electronic_ISBN :
0270-5257
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227071
