and prices are endogenously determined in equilibrium, (ii) how license restrictiveness impacts equilibrium investments … and the quality of offerings, and (iii) how license restrictiveness affects consumer surplus and social welfare. Although … restrictive license instead encourages greater effort from the OSS contributor, leads to higher OSS quality, and provides a larger …

may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … may use more restrictive license terms such as the General Public License to discourage proprietary appropriation of her …

This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …-be software innovators. We make an important distinction between initial developers those developers who decide what license will … released under a certain OSL (and are therefore affected by license terms selected by initial developers). This distinction …

We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even …