Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...
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inclusive umbrella term for free software and open-source software. FOSS is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright...
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freeware or gratis software, which is a category of proprietary software that does not require payment for basic use. For software under the purview of...
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which is a goal of proprietary software. Proprietary software limits their customers' choices to either committing to using that software, upgrading it or...
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tendency to license proprietary software, rather than sell it, dates from the time period before the existence, then the scope of software copyright protection...
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and without violating copyright law. However, licensed forks of proprietary software (e.g. Unix) also happen. The word "fork" has been used to mean "to...
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dialog Adobe Acrobat: Proprietary PDF authoring suite PDF Expert: Proprietary PDF viewer and editor. PDF Studio: Proprietary software to view and edit PDF...
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commercial purposes. Commercial software can be proprietary software or free and open-source software. While software creation by programming is a time and labor-intensive...
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licensed software, GPL-covered software, the GNU operating system, GNU programs, GNU software, FSF-copyrighted GNU software, nonfree software, proprietary software...
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of notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open-source software, or into the...
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