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| x Artistic License |
The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License (version 1.0), a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual...
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| x BSD Licenses |
BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. The original was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix-like operating system after which the license is named. The original owners of BSD were the Regents of...
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| x Free software license |
A free software licence is a software licence which grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the software which would otherwise be prohibited by copyright law. A free software licence grants, to the recipients, freedoms in the form of...
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| x Freeware |
Freeware (from "free" and "software") is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee. The opposite of Freeware is Payware.
The term freeware was coined by Andrew Fluegelman when he wanted to sell a communications...
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| x GNU General Public License |
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The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project.
The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that...
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| x GNU Lesser General Public License |
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The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General...
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| x IBM |
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International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information...
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| x MIT License |
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), used by the MIT X Consortium.
It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the...
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| x Open Source Initiative |
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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.
The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the...
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| x Public domain |
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The public domain is an intellectual property designation for the range of content that is not owned or controlled by anyone. These materials are "public property", and available for anyone to use freely for any purpose. The public domain can be...
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| x Shareware |
The term shareware, popularized by Bob Wallace, refers to proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability or convenience. Shareware is often...
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| x Apache License |
The Apache License (Apache Software License previous to version 2.0) is a free-software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The Apache License (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0) requires preservation of the copyright notice and...
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| x Common Public License |
In computing, the CPL (Common Public License) is a free software / open-source software license published by IBM. The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative have approved the license terms of the CPL.
The CPL has the stated aims of...
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| x Donationware |
Donationware is a licensing model that supplies fully operational software to the user and requests a donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary (usually a non-profit). The amount of the donation may also be stipulated by the...
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| x Mozilla Public License |
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The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open source software license. Version 1.0 was developed by Mitchell Baker when she worked as a lawyer at Netscape Communications Corporation and version 1.1 at the Mozilla Foundation. The MPL is...
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| x Python Software Foundation |
The Python Software Foundation (PSF), is a non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language. It was launched March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community. The PSF is responsible for...
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| x Common Development and Distribution License |
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) is a free software license, produced by Sun Microsystems, based on the Mozilla Public License (MPL), version 1.1.
Files licensed under the CDDL can be combined with files licensed under other...
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| x RealNetworks Community Source License |
The RealNetworks Community Source License (RCSL) is a software license. Developers pick this license when they do not want to open source their resultant Helix DNA-based application. RCSL has a free R&D; license and commercial terms for distribution...
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| x Lucent Public License |
The Lucent Public License is an open-source license created by Lucent Technologies. It has been released in two versions: Version 1.0 and 1.02.
While the Lucent Public License is not one of the more popular open-source licenses, a number of products...
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| x Eclipse Public License |
The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is an open source software license used by the Eclipse Foundation for its software. It replaces the Common Public License (CPL) and removes certain terms relating to patent litigation.
The Eclipse Public License is...
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| x W3C Software Notice and License |
The W3C Software Notice and License is a permissive free software licence used by software released by the World Wide Web Consortium, like Amaya. The license is a permissive license, compatible with the GNU General Public License.
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| x Educational Community License |
Open Source Initiative's Educational Community License is a free and open source license intended for use by academic institutions. It is approved by the Open Source Initiative, and the Free Software Foundation lists the second version of this...
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| x Zope Public License |
Zope Public License is a free software license, used primarily for the Zope application server software. The license is similar to the well-known BSD license, however the ZPL also adds clauses prohibiting trademark use and requiring documentation of...
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| x PHP License |
The PHP License is the software license under which the PHP programming language is released. The PHP License is a GPL incompatible free software license according to the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative due to restrictions on...
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| x Ruby License |
The Ruby License is the open-source license applied to the Ruby programming language and also available to be used in other projects.
The Free Software Foundation comments: "This is a Free Software license, compatible with the GPL via an explicit...
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| x Commercial | ||
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Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code. Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a...
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| x BSD3 License |
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the...
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| x Commercial License |
A commercial software license is typically used to sell the right to use software to users against payment.
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| x POV-Ray License | ||
| x Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
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Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is an electronic digital data transmission technology. ATM is implemented as a network protocol and was first developed in the mid 1980s. The goal was to design a single networking strategy that could transport real...
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| x AOL Instant Messenger |
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AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May...
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| x Domain name system |
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most...
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| x Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a computer networking protocol used by devices (DHCP clients) to obtain configuration information for operation in an Internet Protocol network. This protocol reduces system administration workload,...
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Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs). The name comes from the physical concept of the ether. It defines a number of wiring and signaling standards for the Physical Layer of the OSI...
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| x Gnutella |
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Gnutella (pronounced /nuːˈtɛlə/ with a silent g, but frequently /ɡnuːˈtɛlə/) is a file sharing network. In late 2007, it was the most popular file sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40%. In June 2005,...
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| x Gopher protocol |
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The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet, and was a predecessor, and later, an alternative to the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features...
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| x Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a TCP based Protocol that was designed in 1980 to allow CERN researchers to transfer files, Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is used to transfer HTML code and text exceptionally fast with extremely low overhead.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide encryption and secure identification of the server. HTTPS connections are often used for payment transactions on the...
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| x Internet Relay Chat |
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private...
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| x IEEE 802.11 |
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IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards carrying out wireless local area network (WLAN) computer communication in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. They are implemented by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802).
The 802.11 family includes...
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| x Internet Message Access Protocol |
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The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol (POP). Virtually all modern e-mail clients and mail servers support both...
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| x Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) is a distance vector interior routing protocol (IGP) invented by Cisco. It is used by routers to exchange routing data within an autonomous system.
IGRP is a proprietary protocol. IGRP was created in part to...
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An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes. An IP address serves two principal functions in networking:...
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| x IPX |
Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) is the OSI-model Network layer protocol in the IPX/SPX protocol stack.
The IPX/SPX protocol stack is supported by Novell's NetWare network operating system. Because of Netware's popularity through the late 1980s...
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| x Internet Control Message Protocol |
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The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. It is chiefly used by networked computers' operating systems to send error messages—indicating, for instance, that a requested service is not...
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ICQ is a popular instant messaging computer program, which was first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, now owned by Time Warner's AOL subsidiary. The first version of the program was released in November 1996 and ICQ became one of the...
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| x Integrated Services Digital Network |
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Integrated services digital network is a set of communications standards enabling traditional telephone lines to carry voice, digital network services, and video. Prior to ISDN, the phone system was viewed as a way to transport voice, with some...
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Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking...
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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to IPv4, the first implementation used in the Internet and still in dominant use currently. It is an Internet Layer protocol for packet...
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| x Internet protocol suite |
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The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly known as TCP/IP) is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks. It is named from two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and...
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| x Kerberos protocol |
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Kerberos (pronounced /ˈkɛərbərəs/) is a computer network authentication protocol, which allows nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. It is also a suite of free software published by...
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| x Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP (pronounced /ˈɛl dæp/), is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP.
A directory is a set of objects with attributes organized in a logical and...
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| x MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support:
MIME's use, however, has grown beyond describing the content of e-mail to describing content type in general, including for the web ...
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