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2. Proprietary software - Wikipedia

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   Software limited to certain hardware configurations. Proprietary software may also have licensing terms that limit the usage of that software to a specific set of hardware. Apple has such a licensing model for macOS, an operating system which is limited to Apple hardware, both by licensing and various design decisions.

3. Software license - Wikipedia

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   Software license. 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" ( Freeware ). A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or ...

4. List of proprietary source-available software - Wikipedia

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   While such software often later becomes open source software or public domain, other constructs and software licenses exist, for instance shared source or creative commons licenses. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] If the source code is given out without specified license or public domain waiver it has legally to be considered as still proprietary due to the Berne ...

5. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   Popular open source licenses include the Apache License, the MIT License, the GNU General Public License (GPL), the BSD Licenses, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source ...

6. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [ 1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [ 2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free ...

7. End-user license agreement - Wikipedia

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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 ...

8. 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.

9. Permissive software license - Wikipedia

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   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. Examples include the GNU All-permissive License, MIT ...