Software licenses Software licenses Blizzard v. bnetd was a case in the United States federal court system brought by Blizzard Entertainment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blizzard v. BnetD"
A CD key is a specific software-based key for a certain program or a computer game. It is used to identify that the copy of the program/game is original. For official products the key might be used offline, at other times with software like Windows XP it is registered online to prevent multiple people using the same key. ...more on Wikipedia about "CD key"
Licenses can be granted by copyright holders to grant exceptions from copyright law. While many works are only made available under a single license, the copyright holder has the option of making their work available under any number of licenses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dual license"
FLEXlm is a popular software license manager. It is commonly used in corporate environments to provide floating licences to multiple end users of computer software. ...more on Wikipedia about "FLEXlm"
Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. Freedom from such restrictions is central to the concept of "free software", such that the opposite of free software is proprietary software, and not software which is sold for profit, such as commercial software. Free software may sometimes be known as libre software, FLOSS, or open source software. ...more on Wikipedia about "Free software"
Greenware is a software license which provides an end user with the right to use a particular program as he sees fit (or obtain the source code) if he makes an effort to help out the environment. The license suggests the following: ...more on Wikipedia about "Greenware"
The Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement (HESSLA) is a software license proposed by Hacktivismo that attempts to put ethical restrictions on use and modification of software released under it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement" Things go better with www.shortopedia.com.
Licence-free software is software that is copyrighted but which is not accompanied by a software licence. ...more on Wikipedia about "License-free software"
The term linkware is used when refering to downloadable content, usually graphics, which require that the user puts a link (if used on a website) to the creators website, as a way of giving proper credit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linkware"
Not all software is licensed, or even copyrighted, and this article is thus not an exhaustive list of the terms under which software is available. Software may be published without an accompanying license, as License-Free Software, in which case it remains copyrighted, its distribution is subject to ordinary copyright law, and its sale is subject to ordinary sales law. Software may also be released to the public domain, in which case it is not copyrighted and the notion of a copyright license simply does not apply at all (although the other parts of a software licence, including warranty provisions, will still apply to the sale of such software). ...more on Wikipedia about "List of software licenses"
On a practical level open source software and free software usually share the same licenses, but according to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the open source movement is philosophically distinct from the free software movement. The FSF's free software definition is more restrictive than the Open Source Definition (OSD). All free software is open source; free software is a subset of open source software. In theory, open-source software may or may not be "free," but in practice, nearly all open-source licenses also satisfy the FSF's free software definition. The difference is more a matter of philosophical emphasis. (One exception is an early version of the Apple Public Source License, which was considered open-source but not free, because it did not allow private modified versions; this restriction was later removed.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Open source vs. free software"
An open-source license is a copyright license for computer software that makes the source code available under terms that allow for modification and redistribution without having to pay the original author. Such licenses may have additional restrictions such as a requirement to preserve the name of the authors and the copyright statement within the code. One popular (and sometimes considered normative) set of open source licenses are those approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) based on their Open Source Definition (OSD). ...more on Wikipedia about "Open-source license"
Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some computer software programs. Specifically, product activation refers to a method where a software application hashes hardware serial numbers and an ID number specific to the product's license (a product key) to generate a unique Installation ID. Installation ID is sent to the manufacturer to verify the authenticity of the product key and determine that the product key is not being used for multiple installations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Product activation"
A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ...more on Wikipedia about "Software license" My way is http://www.shortopedia.com
Warez (pronounced like the word wares or like Juárez ) is a derivative of the plural form of " software". It refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of its copyright license. The term generally refers to releases by organized groups, as opposed to peer-to-peer file sharing between friends or large groups of people with similar interest using a Darknet. It usually does not refer to commercial for-profit software counterfeiting. This term was initially coined by members of the various computer underground circles, but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the media. ...more on Wikipedia about "Warez"
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