Table 1 Overview of the case projects
From: Organizing for openness: six models for developer involvement in hybrid OSS projects
Software type | Eclipse 4.7 | NetBeans 8.2 | Qt 5 | GTK+ 3 | Vaadin 8 | SailfishOS 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Integrated Development Environment | Integrated Development Environment | Application development framework | Application development framework | Application development framework | Operating system | |
Language | Java | Java | C++ | C | Java | C, C++, QML, Web technologies, shell scripts |
Current contributors [44] | 275 | 70 | 321 | 137 | 133 | 12 |
License | EPL1 | GNU LGPL2.1 | GNU GPL 3.0, LGPL 2.1 and 3.0 | GNU LGPL 2.1 | Apache 2.0 | Proprietary, GPL, LGPL, BSD, and MIT. |
Orchestrator | Eclipse Foundation | Oracle Ltd. | The Qt Company Ltd. | GNOME Foundation | Vaadin Ltd. | Jolla Ltd. |
Position of the project | The foundation’s primary interest. | Not primary business of the company. | Primary business of the company. | One of the GNOME Foundation’s interconnected projects. | Primary business of the company. | Primary business of the company. |
Orchestrator role | Active open provider, hub for member organizations. | Passive open provider. | Closed sponsor, deploys resources to development activities. | Open provider, organizes partnerships. | Closed sponsor, develops the software, supports the developer ecosystem. | Develops software, deploys resources to affiliated projects. |