License Usage and Changes: A Large-Scale Study of Java Projects on GitHub

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

• Publication date

  2015-05-16

• Fields of study

  Law, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/ICPC.2015.32
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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