Motivation in selection of open source software license: economic and social perspective

Open-source software development widely used the practice of software engineering now a day. It is needed to explore the motivational factors for the selection of open source software licenses. The objective of this research is to find out the motivational factors for the selection of open source software licenses concerning economic and social perspectives. Literature reported motivational factors are verified. Types of different aspects of OSS license selection do not include in the scope of this study. The research question answered through the survey research method. We floated the survey in both local (Pakistani) and international open-source software development community. The results show motivational factors for open source software license selection with respect to economic and social perspectives according to the expectations of local (Pakistani) and international open-source software development community. Literature reported motivational factors verified in this study. There is no significant way/process to adopt any open source software license. To choose an OSS license from a huge OSS license population is concerned about the behavior of decision-maker personals. These motivational factors are those on which the open-source software development community has made their choice of the open-source software license.