A software license is a legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software...

MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it...

A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These...

time. Another license model is licensing per dongle, which allows the owner of the dongle to use the program on any computer. Licensing per server, CPU...

A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...

This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following...

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...

The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It allows users to use the software for any purpose...

additional licensing terms. Most licenses for software sold at retail disclaim (as far as local laws permit) any warranty on the performance of the software and...

third party providers, to manage software licensing for a specific software publisher's products. Publisher-specific license servers are more commonly used...

comply with software license agreements. License managers enable software vendors to offer a wide range of usage-centric software licensing models, such...

License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for...

the same licensing terms. The second problem was that distributors might add restrictions, either to the license or by combining the software with other...

Source-available software is software released through a source code distribution model that includes arrangements where the source can be viewed, and...

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open-source software portal BSD license Copyleft Copyright Free software license GNU Non-commercial educational Open content Share-alike Software licensing "Wikipedia:About"...

A client access license (CAL) is a commercial software license that allows client computers to use server software services. Most commercial desktop apps...

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change...

license, the Open Software License. The OSI's licensing how-to recognises the GPL as a "best practice" license. Some of the software programs of the GNU...

A software licensing audit or software compliance audit is an important sub-set of software asset management and component of corporate risk management...

Multi-licensing is the practice of distributing software under two or more different sets of terms and conditions. This may mean multiple different software...

free software and open-source software. FOSS is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright or licensing and...

Software is a collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks. Software often includes associated software documentation...

The Server Side Public License (SSPL) is a source-available copyleft software license introduced by MongoDB Inc. in 2018. It includes most of the text...

In software licensing, volume licensing is the practice of using one license to authorize software on a large number of computers and/or for a large number...

entirely depend on the licensing of intellectual property. Land licensing (proprietary licensing) and IP licensing. A license provides one party with...

Python Software Foundation License (PSFL) is a BSD-style, permissive software license which is compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL). Its...

Free software, libre software, or libreware is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as...

Software License (OSL) is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open-source license,...