Guilty or Not Guilty: Using Clone Metrics to Determine Open Source Licensing Violations

Guilty or Not Guilty: Using Clone Metrics to Determine Open Source Licensing Violations

To increase productivity, programmers often unwittingly violate open source software licenses by reusing code fragments, or clones. The authors explore metrics that can reveal the existence or absence of code reuse and apply these metrics to 1,225 open source product pairs.

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE software 2011-03, Vol.28 (2), p.42-47
Hauptverfasser: Monden, A, Okahara, S, Manabe, Y, Matsumoto, K
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Analysis
Boundaries
Cloning
Code reuse
Computer programs
Freeware
Licenses
Licensing
Measurement
Open source software
open source software reuse
product metrics
Programmers
Public domain
Similarity
Software
Software engineering
software licensing violations
Software measurement
Source code
Studies
Violations
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Zusammenfassung:To increase productivity, programmers often unwittingly violate open source software licenses by reusing code fragments, or clones. The authors explore metrics that can reveal the existence or absence of code reuse and apply these metrics to 1,225 open source product pairs.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2010.159