Presentation 2021-07-09
Investigation of OSS copyright notices using fine-grained analysis
Taketo Tanabe, Katsuro Inoue,
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Abstract(in English) A copyright notice is a comment at the top of a file indicating the copyright owner of the source code. In the case of OSS, many people can create and edit the source code, and not all people have motivation to show the copyright owner. Then, in this study, in order to examine to what extent the copyright notice is described, after the existence of the copyright notice was defined by the line unit of the source code, the proportion was investigated. As a result, the following were proven: That there is a row without the copyright indication in all OSS, and that there is a relation between the proportion of row which the author made and the proportion which describes the copyright notice.
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Keyword(in English) copyright notice / copyright owner / OSS / git blame
Paper # SS2021-11,KBSE2021-23
Date of Issue 2021-07-01 (SS, KBSE)

Conference Information
Committee KBSE / IPSJ-SE / SS
Conference Date 2021/7/8(2days)
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Place (in English) Virtual (Zoom)
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Chair Hiroyuki Nakagawa(Osaka Univ.) / 鷲崎 弘宜(早稲田大学) / Takashi Kobayashi(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Takuya Saruwatari(NTT Data) / / Kozo Okano(Shinshu Univ.)
Secretary Takuya Saruwatari(Shinshu Univ) / (Doshisha Univ,) / Kozo Okano
Assistant Hideharu Kojima(Osaka Univ.) / Yutaro Kashiwa(Kyushu Univ,) / 伊原 彰紀(和歌山大学) / 小川 秀人(日立製作所) / 竹内 広宜(武蔵大学) / 徳本 晋(富士通) / 伏田 享平(NTT株式会社) / 福田 浩章(芝浦工業大学) / 横川 智教(岡山県立大学) / Shinpei Ogata(Shinshu Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering / Special Interest Group on Software Engineering / Technical Committee on Software Science
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Investigation of OSS copyright notices using fine-grained analysis
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) copyright notice
Keyword(2) copyright owner
Keyword(3) OSS
Keyword(4) git blame
1st Author's Name Taketo Tanabe
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Katsuro Inoue
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
Date 2021-07-09
Paper # SS2021-11,KBSE2021-23
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) SS-94,KBSE-95
Page pp.pp.57-62(SS), pp.57-62(KBSE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-07-01 (SS, KBSE)