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2. Software copyright - Wikipedia

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   Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning software copyright have close parallels in other domains of copyright law, there are a number of distinctive issues that arise with software.

3. Public-domain software - Wikipedia

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   To refer to free software (which is under a free software license) or to software distributed and usable free of charge (freeware) as "public-domain" is therefore incorrect. While public domain gives up the author's exclusive rights (e.g. copyright), in free software the author's copyright is still retained and used, for instance, to enforce ...

4. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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   The Free Software Foundation prefers copyleft (share-alike) free-software licensing rather than permissive free-software licensing for most purposes. Its list distinguishes between free-software licenses that are compatible or incompatible with the FSF's copyleft GNU General Public License .

5. License-free software - Wikipedia

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   Examples of license-free software formerly included programs written by Daniel J. Bernstein, such as qmail, djbdns, daemontools, and ucspi-tcp. Bernstein held the copyright and distributed these works without license until 2007. [1] From December 28, 2007, onwards, he started placing his software in the public domain with an explicit waiver ...

6. Free software - Wikipedia

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   Free software played a significant part in the development of the Internet, the World Wide Web and the infrastructure of dot-com companies. [57] [58] Free software allows users to cooperate in enhancing and refining the programs they use; free software is a pure public good rather than a private good.

7. Software license - Wikipedia

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   On both sides, and therefore mostly orthogonal, "free download" . A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the United States. Despite the copyright being recognized, most companies prefer to sell licenses rather than copies of the ...

8. Public copyright license - Wikipedia

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   Free licenses are a popular subset of public copyright licenses. They include free and open source software licenses and free content licenses. To qualify as a libre license, a public copyright license must allow licensees to share and adapt the licensed work for any purpose, including commercial ones.

9. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is considered free software and/or open-source software. [1] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring that they pay ...