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Software License
A software license is a license agreement that gives an
individual, company, or organization permission to use
a software program.
For example, in most situations, it is illegal to purchase one
copy of a program and copy it onto multiple computers.
Instead of requiring tens, hundreds, or thousands of
individually licensed copies of a program, companies often
purchase site licenses which scale according to the number of
installed users.
Examples
- Single-user license
- Multi-user license
- Site license
Examples
(^) Single-user license - The software is licensed for a single user and often a single computer. (^) Multi-user license - This license allows you to install a program onto multiple computers used by multiple users. Typically this may be a set number of users. For example, a five user multi-user license allows up to five people to use the program. (^) Site license - A program can be installed on an unlimited amount of computers, as long as they're at the location of the site license. Site licenses are usually for schools and businesses.
Commercial software (^) Commercial software is any software or program that is designed and developed for licensing or sale to end users or that serves a commercial purpose. Commercial software was once considered to be proprietary software , but now a number of free and open- source software applications are licensed or sold to end users
Shareware (^) Share ware is also called trial-ware and refer to licensed software that is delivered to the user without payment for trail uses with limited functionality and for specific period after which it is expire. Such software are developed for that purpose that the user become used to it and to know that whether it meets his requirement or not
Open source software (^) Computer software of which source code is also available to the user. It licenses allow the user to study ,change, improve and at a time also to distribute the software (^) The one condition with this type of software is that when changes are made users should make these changes known to others (^) The Linux operating system is one of the best known examples of a collection of open source software
Public Domain (^) This is the most permissive type of software license. It means that anyone can modify and use the software without any restrictions. But you should always make sure it’s secure before adding it to your own codebase. Note that code that doesn’t have a license is NOT automatically in the public domain
