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most citedDo Developers Update Their Library Dependencies? An Empirical Study on the Impact of Security Advisories on Library Migration

348 citations · 436 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.SE2026

Open Source Stewardship Communities: "We need you, but not your pull request"

Gregorio Robles, Daniel M. German

Human-centric AI for software engineering means keeping humans responsible for work performed with AI. In Open Source Software (OSS), AI lowers the cost of implementing changes, bu…

cs.SE2026

You can contribute if you... An Empirical Framework of AI Contribution Policies in OSS

Gregorio Robles, Daniel M. German

Artificial intelligence is reshaping open source software (OSS) contribution by lowering the cost of producing code, documentation, issue reports, and review interactions. This cre…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Copyright related risks in the creation and use of ML/AI systems

Daniel M. German

This paper summarizes the current copyright related risks that Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems (including Large Language Models --LLMs) incur. These…

cs.SE2023★ 5 cited

Using the Uniqueness of Global Identifiers to Determine the Provenance of Python Software Source Code

Yiming Sun, Daniel M. German, Stefano Zacchiroli

We consider the problem of identifying the provenance of free/open source software (FOSS) and specifically the need of identifying where reused source code has been copied from. We…

cs.SE2023★ 25 cited

Do I Belong? Modeling Sense of Virtual Community Among Linux Kernel Contributors

Bianca Trinkenreich, Klaas-Jan Stol, Anita Sarma +3

The sense of belonging to a community is a basic human need that impacts an individuals behavior, long-term engagement, and job satisfaction, as revealed by research in disciplines…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Can I use this publicly available dataset to build commercial AI software? -- A Case Study on Publicly Available Image Datasets

Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Erika Tuck, Li Zi +5

Publicly available datasets are one of the key drivers for commercial AI software. The use of publicly available datasets is governed by dataset licenses. These dataset licenses ou…