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An end-user license agreement or EULA (/ ˈjuːlə /) is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user. The practice of selling licenses to rather than copies of software predates the recognition of software copyright, which has been recognized since the 1970s in the United States. Initially, EULAs were often printed ...
Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to ...
Software licensing agreements usually prohibit resale, enabling the company to maximize revenue. [13] Traditionally, software was distributed in the form of binary object code that could not be understood or modified by the user, [9] but could be downloaded and run. The user bought a perpetual license to use a particular version of the software ...
Microsoft's End User License Agreement for Windows 11 states that: By accepting this agreement or using the software, you agree to all of these terms, and consent to the transmission of certain information during activation and during your use of the software as per the privacy statement described in Section 3.
Commercial apps are licensed to end users or businesses: in a legally binding agreement between the proprietor of the software (the "licensor") and the end user or business (the "licensee"), the licensor gives permission to the licensee to use the app under certain limitations, which are set forth in the license agreement.
This is because the official definitions of those terms require considerable additional rights as to what the user can do with the available source (including, typically, the right to use said software, with attribution, in derived commercial products). [3] In the broad sense, any FOSS license is a source-available license.
2. TERMS. This Agreement plus (a) any supplemental terms posted below and (b) any additional terms that accompany any specific feature, Application or upgrade collectively govern your use of the Applications. We may modify this License if we offer and you accept the download of any new features or updates for the Applications. 3.
Microsoft does not provide refunds for Windows licenses sold through an OEM, including licenses that come with the purchase of a computer or are pre-installed on a computer. [60] According to Microsoft's End-user license agreement for Windows 7 the ability to receive a refund for the operating system is determined by the hardware manufacturer: [61]