What 316 GitHub Issues Teach Us About the Dark Side of Open Source

From the viewpoint of stakeholders, this paper offers the first thorough analysis of unethical behavior in open-source software (OSS) initiatives. Our analysis of 316 GitHub problems from 301 repositories reveals 15 different forms of unethical activity, including six situations that haven't been examined before, including self-promotion, soft forking, misinformed licensing alterations, and naming confusion.