Software is a collection of programs and data that tell a computer how to perform specific tasks. Software often includes associated software documentation...

open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or...

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...

Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. A practitioner, a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to...

An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than...

with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer. Generally...

of software. Under United States copyright law, all software is copyright protected, in both source code and object code forms, unless that software was...

Free software, libre software, or libreware is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as...

Look up software package or software packages in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Software package may refer to: Package (package management system), in...

The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists...