Open source (OS) licenses differ in the conditions under which licensors and OS contributors are allowed to modify and redistribute the source code. While recent research has explored the determinants of license choice, we know little about the impact of license choice on project success. In...

Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. By contrast, we argue how IP law is at the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law....

Does Open Source (OS) represent a new innovation model, and under what conditions can it be employed in other contexts? A look into history shows that OS isn't a unique example of what is called "collective invention". Other examples are blast furnaces in Britain's Cleveland district, steam...

En réponse à l'intérêt manifesté par l'industrie québécoise du logiciel et dans le contexte d'un questionnement global des administrations publiques en ce sens, le gouvernement du Québec s'intéresse de près aux logiciels libres et ouverts. Cette ouverture se comprend parfaitement dans...

Does Open Source (OS) represent a new innovation model, and under what conditions can it be employed in other contexts? A look into history shows that OS isn?t a unique example of what is called ?collective invention?. Other examples are blast furnaces in Britain?s Cleveland district, steam...

The Internet creativity is just one of the effects of digital revolution. In the era of social participation and the new forms of communication, creativity is involved in a new process of participation and many forms of creative expression are developed. This process is made by the participation...