Software

Licensing

Terms

7 terms

  • Apache License

    The Apache License is a permissive open source software license that allows reuse and relicensing while adding an explicit patent grant and notice rules.

  • Copyleft

    Copyleft is a software licensing method that uses copyright to require that modified and redistributed versions stay under the same free terms.

  • Free software

    Free software is software licensed to grant users the freedom to run, study, modify and share it, a matter of liberty under its license rather than…

  • GPL

    The GPL is a copyleft free software license that lets anyone use, modify and share code, provided distributed derivative works keep the same license terms.

  • MIT License

    The MIT License is a short permissive open source license that allows almost any use of software as long as the copyright and license notice are…

  • Open source

    Open source describes software whose source code is released under a license that lets anyone use, study, modify and redistribute it for any purpose.

  • Software license

    A software license is the legal permission that defines how a program may be used, copied, modified and redistributed, and under which conditions.