Abstract
During the last years Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) has gained much attention in the software evolution and maintenance research community. This is due to various reasons that range from the availability of the software product to the archival of past software and non-software artifacts in versioning repositories, bug tracking systems and mailing lists, among others. The most interesting aspect of FLOSS is how the evolution and maintenance of a given FLOSS project is affected by other FLOSS projects and their communities. This includes how (technical and non-technical) knowledge flows between projects, the impact of the software dependencies on the evolution of the own software, the impact of the licensing terms and other intellectual property rights on the evolution of the software or how (technical and non-technical) decisions of some FLOSS applications may affect other FLOSS applications.
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