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2. Free software - Wikipedia

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   proprietary software, such as Microsoft Office, Windows, Adobe Photoshop, Facebook or FaceTime. Users cannot study, change, and share their source code. freeware or gratis [ 14] software, which is a category of proprietary software that does not require payment for basic use.

3. Free-software license - Wikipedia

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   Software using such a license is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses are applied to software in source code and also binary object-code form, as the copyright law recognizes both forms.

4. Alternative terms for free software - Wikipedia

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   In 1998 the term "open-source software" (abbreviated "OSS") was coined as an alternative to "free software".There were several reasons for the proposal of a new term. On the one hand a group from the free software ecosystem perceived the Free Software Foundation's attitude toward propagandizing the "free software" concept as "moralising and confrontational", which was also associated with the ...

5. Public-domain software - Wikipedia

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   From the software culture of the 1950s to 1990s, public-domain (or PD) software were popular as original academic phenomena. This kind of freely distributed and shared "free software" combined the present-day classes of freeware, shareware, and free and open-source software, and was created in academia, by hobbyists, and hackers. [2]

6. Coupon collector's problem - Wikipedia

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   Coupon collector's problem. In probability theory, the coupon collector's problem refers to mathematical analysis of "collect all coupons and win" contests. It asks the following question: if each box of a given product (e.g., breakfast cereals) contains a coupon, and there are n different types of coupons, what is the probability that more ...

7. LimeWire - Wikipedia

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   LimeWire. LimeWire was a free peer-to-peer file sharing client for Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris. [ 1] Created by Mark Gorton [ 2][ 3][ 4] in 2000, it was most prominently a tool used for the download and distribution of pirated materials, particularly pirated music. [ 5] In 2007, LimeWire was estimated to be installed on over one-third of ...

8. Software engineering - Wikipedia

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   Software engineering is an engineering approach to software development. [ 1][ 2][ 3] A practitioner, called a software engineer, applies the engineering design process to develop software. The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the construction aspect of typical software engineer workload.

9. Permissive software license - Wikipedia

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   License with minimal restrictions. A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-likeor BSD-stylelicense,[1]is a free-softwarelicensewhich instead of copyleftprotections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer.