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Unlicensed software usage, a global issue, must be addressed for successful revenue recovery initiatives. While reflecting an improvement over the past year, approximately 1 in 10 respondents are still unaware of how much revenue is lost to unauthorized software usage. Awareness of how revenue loss is taking place is improving. Presently only 5 ...
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.
Advocates of license-free software, such as Bernstein, argue that software licenses are harmful because they restrict the freedom to use software, and copyright law provides enough freedom without the need for licenses. Though having some restrictions, these licenses allow certain actions that are disallowed by copyright laws in some jurisdictions.
The Free Software Foundation states that "Both public domain works and the lax license provided by the Unlicense are compatible with the GNU GPL." [1]Google does not allow its employees to contribute to projects under public domain equivalent licenses like the Unlicense (and CC0), while allowing contributions to 0BSD licensed and US government PD projects.
Alcatel licensed the use of its software only along with its manufactured equipment. [15] The terms of the license banned downloading or copying Alcatel’s software. However, DGI downloaded and copied Alcatel’s software in violation of the licensing agreement in order to ensure compatibility with its product. [ 16 ]
Code for open-source software may be released with a pre-approved non-reciprocal licence permitting its use in other projects, which facilitates license laundering. [ 6 ] : 486 To avoid such laundering, developers and project managers should determine the source of the code, and mitigate potential problems with a quality assurance inspection.
The decision to use open-source software, or even engage with open-source projects to improve existing open-source software, is typically a pragmatic business decision. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] When proprietary software is in direct competition with an open-source alternative, research has found conflicting results on the effect of the competition on the ...
Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music, movies or software. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] History