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    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 actions...
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  • software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software...
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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified...
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  • A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections,...
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    Free software, libre software, or libreware is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well...
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  • 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...
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    The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)...
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  • License-free software is computer software that is not explicitly in the public domain, but the authors appear to intend free use, modification, distribution...
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  • Proprietary software is a subset of non-free software, a term defined in contrast to free and open-source software; non-commercial licenses such as CC...
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  • free software movement. The FSF is also the steward of several free software licenses, meaning it publishes them and has the ability to make revisions...
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