Towards Engineering Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Ecosystems for Impact and Sustainability Communications of NII Shonan Meetings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fitzgerald, Brian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mockus, Audris (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zhou, Minghui (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Open source software.; Computer programming.; Management information systems.; Open Source.; Business Information Systems.

Free/libre open source software (FLOSS) ecosystems such as Linux have had a tremendous impact on computing and society and have captured the attention of businesses, researchers, and policy makers. Research on FLOSS has been ongoing for almost two decades. From an economic perspective, the most comm...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: A Methodology for Measuring FLOSS Ecosystems
• Chapter 2: Mining data to profile communication in FLOSS communities
• Chapter 3: A Preliminary Theory for Open Source Ecosystem Micro-economics
• Chapter 4: Open Source Ecosystems and their need for a legal framework
• Chapter 5: Legal Aspects: Open Source License Compliance in Software Supply Chains
• Chapter 6: The Life and Death of Software Ecosystems
• Chapter 7: Onboarding and Retaining of Contributors in FLOSS Ecosystem
• Chapter 8: A Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Initiative For a Sustainable Deployment in Oman
• Chapter 9: Crowd-based Methodology of Software Development in the Internet Era.