1st workshop on maintenance and evolution of FLOSS (MEFLOSS)

Author

Robles, Gregorio ; German, Daniel M. ; Capiluppi, Andrea

Author_Institution

GSyC/LibreSoft, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 28 2008-Oct. 4 2008

Firstpage

410

Lastpage

411

Abstract

During the last years Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has gained much attention in the software evolution and maintenance research community. This is due to various reasons that range from the availability of the software product to the archival of past software and non-software artifacts in versioning repositories, bug tracking systems and mailing lists, among others. The most interesting aspect of FLOSS is how the evolution and maintenance of a given FLOSS project is affected by other FLOSS projects and their communities. This includes how (technical and non-technical) knowledge flows between projects, the impact of the software dependencies on the evolution of the own software, the impact of the licensing terms and other intellectual property rights on the evolution of the software or how (technical and non-technical) decisions of some FLOSS applications may affect other FLOSS applications.

Keywords

public domain software; software maintenance; software prototyping; FLOSS project evolution; FLOSS project maintenance; bug tracking system; free software; intellectual property right; knowledge flow; libre software; licensing term; mailing list; nonsoftware artifact; open source software; past software archival; software dependency impact; software evolution; software maintenance; software product availability; versioning repository;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2008. ICSM 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2613-3

Electronic_ISBN

1063-6773

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2008.4658091

Filename

4658091