software licence
The terms that say how software may be used, changed and shared, from copyleft licences such as the GPL to permissive ones such as MIT.
In more detail
Copyleft licences such as the GNU GPL require changed versions to be shared under the same terms. Permissive licences such as MIT allow reuse in closed products. Proprietary licences restrict copying and changes.
Related terms
- GNU — A free-software project that wrote many standard command-line tools, including Bash, grep, sed and the core file utilities.
Taught in
- The App In /bin That Vanished: The FHS, Distributions And Licences — CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006) Exam Prep
- A Card With No Driver, A Stick With Too Much: Devices And Kernel Modules — CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006) Exam Prep