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  • Abandonware

    Software which is no longer being maintained, released or supported by the...

  • Author

    The programmer (or their employer) of a software...

  • BSD Licence

    Berkeley Software Distribution Licence - a type of Open Source software licence with few...

  • Binary

    Executable program or a data...

  • Click-Wrap Licence

    This is a licence for software either downloaded from a website or loaded from disk, where the licence terms are accepted on screen by following a "click to accept"...

  • Closed Source

    Software which does not allow its code to be manipulated by...

  • Concurrent User Licence

    A software licence which depends upon the number of people who use the software at any one...

  • DRM

    Digital Rights Management - a system designed to prevent illegal copying of...

  • EULA

    End User Licence Agreement - an agreement which restricts the use of a computer program by the end...

  • End User

    The person who uses a computer...

  • FOSS

    Free and Open Source software - software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source...

  • Free Software

    See...

  • Freeware

    This is proprietary software made available free of...

  • GNU

    General Public License (aka GPL) - it is a widely used free software...

  • Licence

    A privelege to copy or use a...

  • MIT License

    This is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

  • Named User Licence

    This type of licence requires every individual who is going to use the software to be granted a...

  • Open Source Software

    See...

  • Phishing

    This is a fraudulent method which aims to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic...

  • Proprietary Software

    This is computer software with restrictions on use or private modification, or with restrictions judged to be excessive on copying or publishing of modified or unmodified...

  • Shareware

    Software which has a limited licence, generally with the aim of allowing a time-specific...

  • Source Code

    This refers to a sequence of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming...

  • Warez

    Software or protected electronic copyrighted material which has been illegally "hacked" and unlocked by software...
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