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most citedScientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software

8 citations · 8 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2026

Ensuring Open Source Integrity: The Intersection of Copy-Based Reuse and License Compliance

Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Bogdan Vasilescu, Audris Mockus

As other creative work, source code is protected by copyright. The owner can license the work, e.g., to permit copy and other kinds of use, and even start legal proceeding against…

cs.SE2026

The Prevalence and Impact of Licenses in Open Software Projects

Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Bogdan Vasilescu, Audris Mockus

The terms of how publicly available source code can be used are dictated by its license. The license (or its absence), in turn, affects what code the project may reuse and how its…

cs.SE20258 cited

Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think! Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software

Addi Malviya Thakur, Reed Milewicz, Mahmoud Jahanshahi +3

Scientific software is essential to scientific innovation and in many ways it is distinct from other types of software. Abandoned (or unmaintained), buggy, and hard to use software…

cs.SE2025

Cracks in The Stack: Hidden Vulnerabilities and Licensing Risks in LLM Pre-Training Datasets

Mahmoud Jahanshahi, Audris Mockus

A critical part of creating code suggestion systems is the pre-training of Large Language Models on vast amounts of source code and natural language text, often of questionable ori…

cs.SE2024

Beyond Dependencies: The Role of Copy-Based Reuse in Open Source Software Development

Mahmoud Jahanshahi, David Reid, Audris Mockus

In Open Source Software, resources of any project are open for reuse by introducing dependencies or copying the resource itself. In contrast to dependency-based reuse, the infrastr…

cs.SE2024

OSS License Identification at Scale: A Comprehensive Dataset Using World of Code

Mahmoud Jahanshahi, David Reid, Adam McDaniel +1

The proliferation of open source software (OSS) and different types of reuse has made it incredibly difficult to perform an essential legal and compliance task of accurate license…