We investigate how intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement against developers and users of open source software …

It is commonly believed that every contributor to a free and open source software project owns copyright in their … strongly consistent with the social construct of free software. This view is based on a belief that the application of the … existing copyright law of joint authorship will undermine the intended operation of the free software license and thus fail to …

An enduring issue that intrigues researchers and practitioners in open-source software (OSS) development is what …

Over the last few years, open source software (OSS) development has gained a huge popularity and has attracted a large … variety of developers under its fold. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of … software depend on the communication patterns of the contributors. Communication patterns among developers influence knowledge …