Motivation of Open Source Developers

2011 ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Mark R. Allyn ◽  
Ram B. Misra
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Open Source Code ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Work Done

The motivational drivers of open source software developers have been researched by various investigators since about 2000. This work shows that developers are motivated by different extrinsic and intrinsic drivers, among them community aspirations, reciprocity and fairness, creative impulses, and monetary and career ambitions. There has been some work done in studying whether the profile of developer motivations is constant across open source projects or is sensitive to project organizational design. Among the many factors that could influence the mix of motives of OS developers is the license under which the work is performed. Licenses range in openness between those such as the GNU GPL that severely restrict the freedom of developers to mingle their OS code with proprietary code to those such as BSD licenses which allow programmers much greater latitude in integrating open source code with proprietary code. In addition to formal rules, meritocracies emerge to reward effort and performance, and also to direct, coordinate, and control other participants. The authors discuss these variables and how they may be related to motivations.

Motivation of Open Source Developers

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Allyn ◽  
Ram B. Misra
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Open Source Code ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control ◽  
Work Done

The motivational drivers of open source software developers have been researched by various investigators since about 2000. This work shows that developers are motivated by different extrinsic and intrinsic drivers, among them community aspirations, reciprocity and fairness, creative impulses, and monetary and career ambitions. There has been some work done in studying whether the profile of developer motivations is constant across open source projects or is sensitive to project organizational design. Among the many factors that could influence the mix of motives of OS developers is the license under which the work is performed. Licenses range in openness between those such as the GNU GPL that severely restrict the freedom of developers to mingle their OS code with proprietary code to those such as BSD licenses which allow programmers much greater latitude in integrating open source code with proprietary code. In addition to formal rules, meritocracies emerge to reward effort and performance, and also to direct, coordinate, and control other participants. The authors discuss these variables and how they may be related to motivations.

THE TECHNOLOGY OF DETECTION INFORMATION ABOUT VULNERABILITY IN THIRD-PARTY OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

2020 ◽  
pp. 347-364
Author(s):  
Алексей Леонидович Сердечный ◽  
Игорь Васильевич Герасимов ◽  
Олег Юрьевич Макаров ◽  
Юрий Геннадьевич Пастернак ◽  
Николай Михайлович Тихомиров ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Rapid Detection ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Version Control ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Open Source Code

В статье приведены результаты разработки технологии выявления сведений об уязвимостях сторонних компонентов программного обеспечения (ПО), позволяющей своевременно обнаруживать проблемы безопасности, связанные с использованием заимствованных компонентов с открытым исходным кодом. Технология отличается процедурами оперативного обнаружения, ранжирования и подтверждения достоверности первоисточников сообщений о таких проблемах. Разработанная технология основана на проведении сбора и семантического анализа сведений об ошибках и средствах (алгоритмах) эксплуатации уязвимостей ПО, содержащихся в сообщениях, публикуемых на информационных ресурсах разработчиков ПО с открытым исходным кодом. Технология включает процедуру подтверждения сведений о наиболее опасных уязвимостях с последующей оценкой рисков для подтверждённых уязвимостей. В статье также приводятся результаты реализации предлагаемой технологии в виде средства сбора и интерактивного анализа сообщений о ошибках в ПО с открытым исходным кодом, размещаемым на платформах для совместной разработки GitHub и GitLab. Технология выявления сведений об уязвимостях сторонних компонентов позволяет повысить защищённость ПО, использующего в своём составе общедоступные компоненты с открытым исходным кодом. The article presents the results of the development the technology of detection information about vulnerability in third-party open source software, which allows timely detection of security problems associated with the use of borrowed components provided with open source code. The technology is characterized by procedures for rapid detection, ranking, and confirmation of the authenticity sources of primary reports about such problems. The technology is based on collecting and mining information about bugs, vulnerabilities and exploits contained in messages that published in sources of open source software developers. The technology includes a procedure for confirming information about the most dangerous vulnerabilities, followed by a risk assessment for confirmed vulnerabilities. The article also presents the results of implementing the proposed technology as a tool for collecting and interactively analyzing bug messages in open source software hosted on the GitHub and GitLab collaborative version control platforms. The technology for detecting information about vulnerabilities of third-party components allows you to increase the security of software that uses publicly available open source components.

scholarly journals Evaluation indicators for open-source software: a review

Cybersecurity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhang Zhao ◽  
Ruigang Liang ◽  
Xiang Chen ◽  
Jing Zou
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
The Past

AbstractIn recent years, the widespread applications of open-source software (OSS) have brought great convenience for software developers. However, it is always facing unavoidable security risks, such as open-source code defects and security vulnerabilities. To find out the OSS risks in time, we carry out an empirical study to identify the indicators for evaluating the OSS. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of the OSS assessment, we collect 56 papers from prestigious academic venues (such as IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, and Google Scholar) in the past 21 years. During the process of the investigation, we first identify the main concerns for selecting OSS and distill five types of commonly used indicators to assess OSS. We then conduct a comparative analysis to discuss how these indicators are used in each surveyed study and their differences. Moreover, we further undertake a correlation analysis between these indicators and uncover 13 confirmed conclusions and four cases with controversy occurring in these studies. Finally, we discuss several possible applications of these conclusions, which are insightful for the research on OSS and software supply chain.

To Fork or Not to Fork

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linus Nyman ◽  
Tommi Mikkonen
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Software Developers

A project fork occurs when software developers take a copy of source code from one software package and use it to begin an independent development work that is maintained separately. Although forking in open source software does not require the permission of the original authors, the new version competes for the attention of the same developers that have worked on the original version. The motivations developers have for performing forks are many, but in general they have received little attention. The authors present the results of a study of forks performed in SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/) and list the developers’ motivations for their actions.

Software Source Code Plagiarism and Direction Detection Based on PDG

2013 ◽  
Vol 373-375 ◽  
pp. 1172-1177
Author(s):  
Bo Shu ◽  
Xiao Jun Du
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Plagiarism Detection ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Direction Detection

Because of the complexity of the software development, some software developers may plagiarize source code that comes from other projects or open source software in order to shorten development cycle. Usually the copyist would modify and disguise the source code copied to escape plagiarism detection. So far, most algorithms cant completely detect the source disguised by the copyist, especially cant exactly distinguish between the source code and the plagiaristic code. In this paper, we summarize and analyze the effect of disguised source to the detection process, design the strategy to remove the effect of disguised source, and propose a PDG-based software source code plagiarism detection algorithm. The algorithm can detect the existence of disguised source, so as to find out source code plagiarism. And we propose a heuristic rule to make the detection algorithm have the ability to give the plagiarism direction. Any existing algorithm does not have this function. We prove the availability of the algorithm by experiment.

To Fork or Not to Fork

2013 ◽  
pp. 142-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linus Nyman ◽  
Tommi Mikkonen
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Software Package ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Original Version ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Software Developers

A project fork occurs when software developers take a copy of source code from one software package and use it to begin an independent development work that is maintained separately. Although forking in open source software does not require the permission of the original authors, the new version competes for the attention of the same developers that have worked on the original version. The motivations developers have for performing forks are many, but in general they have received little attention. The authors present the results of a study of forks performed in SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/) and list the developers’ motivations for their actions.

AN OPEN-SOURCE CODE FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF DRAINAGE BASIN DEVELOPMENT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. Shaw ◽  
◽  
Howard D. Mooers ◽  
Josef Smrz ◽  
Zdenek Papez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Open Source Code ◽  
Basin Development

scholarly journals Open Plot Project: an open-source toolkit for 3-D structural data analysis

Solid Earth ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tavani ◽  
P. Arbues ◽  
M. Snidero ◽  
N. Carrera ◽  
J. A. Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Geological Modelling ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Transect Analysis ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. In this work we present the Open Plot Project, an open-source software for structural data analysis, including a 3-D environment. The software includes many classical functionalities of structural data analysis tools, like stereoplot, contouring, tensorial regression, scatterplots, histograms and transect analysis. In addition, efficient filtering tools are present allowing the selection of data according to their attributes, including spatial distribution and orientation. This first alpha release represents a stand-alone toolkit for structural data analysis. The presence of a 3-D environment with digitalising tools allows the integration of structural data with information extracted from georeferenced images to produce structurally validated dip domains. This, coupled with many import/export facilities, allows easy incorporation of structural analyses in workflows for 3-D geological modelling. Accordingly, Open Plot Project also candidates as a structural add-on for 3-D geological modelling software. The software (for both Windows and Linux O.S.), the User Manual, a set of example movies (complementary to the User Manual), and the source code are provided as Supplement. We intend the publication of the source code to set the foundation for free, public software that, hopefully, the structural geologists' community will use, modify, and implement. The creation of additional public controls/tools is strongly encouraged.

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