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2. Software license - Wikipedia

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   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 software because it enables them to enforce stricter terms on redistribution.

3. End-user license agreement - Wikipedia

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   A brief, written-out beta test software license issued by Macromedia in 1995. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. MIT License - Wikipedia

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   Linking from code with a different licence. Yes. The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [6] in the late 1980s. [7] As a permissive license, it puts very few restrictions on reuse and therefore has high license compatibility. [8][9]

6. GNU General Public License - Wikipedia

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   GNU General Public License. Software licensed under GPL compatible licenses only, with the exception of the LGPL which allows all programs. [6] The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedoms to (x,y) 39° 055 24919 1 39° 055 ...

7. Business models for open-source software - Wikipedia

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   Open-source software can also be commercialized from selling services, such as training, technical support, or consulting, rather than the software itself. [5] [6]Another possibility is offering open-source software in source code form only, while providing executable binaries to paying customers only, offering the commercial service of compiling and packaging of the software.

8. 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. This article primarily focuses on topics particular ...

9. First-sale doctrine - Wikipedia

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   The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled, on July 3, 2012, that it is indeed permissible to resell software licenses even if the digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, and that the first sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an unlimited amount of time, as such sale involves ...