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date: 2001
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keywords: 'ethical issues, metrics, open source'
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note: 'This paper deals with ethical issues involved in the analysis of source code, in particular code for open source software.'
number: 4
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publication: Empirical Software Engineering
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referencetext: |-
  ACM Executive Council, 1993. ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 2, , pp. 99-105, http://www.acm.org/
  constitution/code.html
  Common Rule. (45 CFR 46, Subpart A). http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/
  El-Emam, K. 2001. Ethics and Open Source. Empirical Software Engineering, 6(4): 291-292.
  Sieber, J. 2001. Protecting Research Subjects, Employees and Researchers: Implications for Software Engineering. Empirical Software Engineering, 6(4): 327-340.
  Thomas, J. 1996. Introduction: A Debate about the Ethics of Fair Practices for Collecting Social Science Data in Cyberspace. The Information Society, 12(2): 107-117.
  Tri-council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, 1998, http://www.nserc.ca/programs/ethics/english/policy.htm
  Waskul, D. and Douglass, M. 1996. Considering the Electronic Participant: Some Polemical Observations on the Ethics of On-Line Research, The Information Society, 12(2): 129-139.
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title: Getting to the Source of Ethical Issues
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