Research Article | OPEN ACCESS
Comparative Study on Innovation Incentives for Commercial Open Source Software under Different Licenses
Mingqing Xing
Department of Economics and Management, Weifang University, Weifang 261061, China
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 13:3538-3542
Received: July 27, 2012 | Accepted: September 17, 2012 | Published: April 15, 2013
Abstract
This study compares technological innovation incentives for commercial open source software under two typical licenses (the GNU General Public License and the Berkeley Software Distribution License, i.e., GPL and BSD). In the case of private optimum, the incentive towards software features (resp. usability) innovation is always higher (resp. lower) under BSD than under GPL. Contrast to the private optimum, the social planner expects more investment in software feature under both BSD and GPL, but less (resp. equivalent) investment in software usability under BSD (resp. GPL).
Keywords:
BSD, commercial open source, GPL, open source software, software innovation, software feature software usability,
Competing interests
The authors have no competing interests.
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