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Table 4 The indicators about license

From: Evaluation indicators for open-source software: a review

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# Indicator Affected by License

Correlation

Indicator Affect License

Correlation

Lerner (2005)

Project activity

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

 

Developers number

Negative

Target user (end-users et al.)

Positive

 

Bugs or errors

N.A.

Language (English)

Negative

Stewart et al. (2005)

Project popularity

Negative

N.A.

N.A.

 

Project activity

Negative

N.A.

N.A.

Colazo et al. (2009)

Developer number

Positive

N.A.

N.A.

 

Coding activity level

Positive

N.A.

N.A.

 

Developer permanence

Positive

N.A.

N.A.

 

Development speed

Positive

N.A.

N.A.

Sen et al. (2008)

N.A.

N.A.

Motivation/Attitude

Positive

Senyard and Michlmayr (2004)

Developer number

Positive

N.A.

N.A