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Diagram of software under various licenses according to the FSF and their The Free Software Definition: on the left side "free software", on the right side "proprietary software". On both sides, and therefore mostly orthogonal, "free download" . A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.
A site license [1] is a type of software license that allows the user to install a software package in several computers simultaneously, such as at a particular site (facility) or across a corporation. [2] Depending on the amount of fees paid, the license may be unlimited [3] or may limit
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, [1] is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer.
The SPDX License List contains extra MIT license variations. Examples include: [1] MIT-advertising, a variation with an additional advertising clause. There is also the Anti-Capitalist Software License (ACSL), [22] built off of the MIT license. The ACSL is not OSI-approved, nor does it qualify as a free software license as defined by the FSF ...
Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development. Intellectual property (IP) laws restrict the modification and sharing of creative works. Free and open-source licenses use these existing legal structures for an inverse purpose.
These software license agreements are often labeled as end-user license agreements . Another impact of the decision was the rise of the shrink-wrap closed source business model, where before a source code driven software distribution schema dominated. [15] [17]
Software relicensing is applied in open-source software development when software licenses of software modules are incompatible and are required to be compatible for a greater combined work. Licenses applied to software as copyrightable works, in source code as binary form, [ 1 ] can contain contradictory clauses.
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.