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Snippet from Wikipedia: Software license

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. Under United States copyright law, all software is copyright protected, in both source code and object code forms, unless that software was developed by the United States Government, in which case it cannot be copyrighted. Authors of copyrighted software can donate their software to the public domain, in which case it is also not covered by copyright and, as a result, cannot be licensed.

A typical software license grants the licensee, typically an end-user, permission to use one or more copies of software in ways where such a use would otherwise potentially constitute copyright infringement of the software owner's exclusive rights under copyright.

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0

Category:Software licenses

List of free and open-source software packages:

• Software licensing audit
• Automatic server discovery

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• License borrowing

• Certificate of authenticity
• Client access license
• Community source
• Concurrent user
• Copy protection

• Donationware
• Software protection dongle

• End-user license agreement

• Free and open-source software
• Free software
• Freely redistributable software
• Freeware

• GNU All-permissive License - GNU
• GPL linking exception - GPL

• License-free software

• Open License Program
• Open-source software

• Per-seat license
• Product activation
• Proprietary firmware
• Proprietary software

• Shareware
• Site license

• Volume licensing