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  2. Proprietary software - Wikipedia

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    Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software ...

  3. List of proprietary source-available software - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of proprietary source-available software, which has available source code, but is not classified as free software or open-source software. In some cases, this type of software is originally sold and released without the source code , and the source code becomes available later.

  4. Programming language - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 December 2024. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Language for communicating instructions to a machine The source code for a computer program in C. The gray lines are comments that explain the program to humans. When compiled and run, it will give the output "Hello, world!". A programming ...

  5. Comparison of open-source and closed-source software

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    A software philosophy that combines aspects of FOSS and proprietary software is open core software, or commercial open source software. Despite having received criticism from some proponents of FOSS, [7] it has exhibited marginal success. Examples of open core software include MySQL and VirtualBox.

  6. Software copyright - Wikipedia

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    Section 2(p) of the ordinance defines a computer program as "that is to say programmes recorded on any disc, tape, perforated media or other information storage devices, which, if fed into or located in a computer or computer based equipment is capable of reproducing any information". [6]

  7. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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    Open core is a business model where developers release a core piece of software as open source and monetize a product containing it as proprietary software. [114] The strong copyleft GPL is written to prevent distribution within proprietary software.

  8. Computer programming - Wikipedia

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    Computer programming is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It involves designing and implementing algorithms , step-by-step specifications of procedures, by writing code in one or more programming languages .

  9. Portal:Computer programming - Wikipedia

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    Computer programming is the composition of sequences of instructions, called programs, that computers can follow to perform tasks. It involves designing and implementing algorithms , step-by-step specifications of procedures, by writing code in one or more programming languages .