* Apache Software License, an open-source license for software

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-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

Whether or not the original Artistic License is a free software license is largely unsettled.

When Nintendo revived the industry, they signed up software development companies to create NES games under a strict license agreement which imposed serious restrictions on what they were allowed to do.

Additionally, Borland was known for its practical and creative approach towards software piracy and intellectual property ( IP ), introducing its " Borland no-nonsense license agreement ".

Berkeley DB is redistributed under the Sleepycat Public License, which is an OSI-approved open source license as well as an FSF-approved free software licence.

Proprietary software can use Berkeley DB only under a commercial license agreement between Oracle and the application's publisher.

Data General refused to license their software ( which was hard to do, since it was on the books as a free asset ), and claimed their " bundling rights ".

The Supreme Court let a 9th circuit decision stand, and Data General was eventually forced into licensing the Operating System software because it was ruled that restricting the license to only DG hardware was an illegal tying arrangement.

The software's license gives the user the right to use the software in the licensed environment.

Some software comes with the license when purchased off the shelf, or an OEM license when bundled with hardware.

Other software comes with a free software license, granting the recipient the rights to modify and redistribute the software.

The Open Group released Motif in 2000 as OpenMotif under a " revenue sharing " license that does not fully meet either the open source or free software definitions.

On August 6, 2012, CDE was freed under the LGPL free software license. Its source code is available at SourceForge.

Red Hat normally licenses the Cygwin library under the GNU General Public License version 3 with an exception to allow linking to any free and open source software whose license conforms to the Open Source Definition.

Coleco's software approach was to license arcade games that Atari had not.

Such a document is either a free software license or the release of the source code into the public domain.

At the same time, some business models which work with proprietary software are not compatible with free software, such as those that depend on the user to pay for a license in order to lawfully use the software product.

The software libraries may include software tools to adjust resolution, screen colors, pointers and screenmodes.

Other software may use alpha blended transparent elements in the GUI independently of OS provided APIs by precomposing elements in an off-screen memory buffer before displaying them.

Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

They may also be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.

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In systems engineering it may involve black-box testing performed on a system ( for example: a piece of software, lots of manufactured mechanical parts, or batches of chemical products ) prior to its delivery.

Booting is a chain of events that starts with execution of hardware-based procedures and may then hand-off to firmware and software which is loaded into main memory.

If a newer software version cannot save files that can be read by the older version, it is not backward compatible with the older version, although it may provide an irreversible upgrade capability for the old files.

Trade deficits generated in tradeable goods such as manufactured goods or software may impact domestic employment to different degrees than trade deficits in raw materials.

Apps may be bundled with the computer and its system software, or may be published separately.

Depending on how competently the user-written software has been integrated into default application packages, many users may not be aware of the distinction between the original packages, and what has been added by co-workers.

The controversy over software patents is about specific algorithms or techniques that the software contains, which may not be duplicated by others and considered intellectual property and copyright infringement depending on the severity.

A paralegal or court officer may keep track of the cases by using docketing software.

Computer programs may be categorized along functional lines: system software and application software.

Tom McPhail defined " Electronic colonialism as the dependency relationship established by the importation of communication hardware, foreign-produced software, along with engineers, technicians, and related information protocols, that vicariously establish a set of foreign norms, values, and expectations which, in varying degrees, may alter the domestic cultures and socialization processes.

Many rendering algorithms have been researched, and software used for rendering may employ a number of different techniques to obtain a final image.

The handler may save additional context, depending on details of the particular hardware and software designs.

Additional research notes that test users may be able to identify an area that proves challenging in a software system, but might have difficulty explaining the outcome.

Some content-control software includes time control functions that empowers parents to set the amount of time that child may spend accessing the Internet or playing games or other computer activities.

Internet filters, parental control software, and / or accountability software may also be combined into one product.

The software license may also impose various other restrictions, such as restricted use over a network, restricted use on a server, restricted use in a combination with some types of other software or with some hardware devices, prohibited distribution over the Internet other than linking to author's website, restricted distribution without author's consent, restricted number of copies, etc.

* Software engineering tools and methods: The computer-based tools that are intended to assist the software life cycle processes, see Computer Aided Software Engineering, and the methods which impose structure on the software engineering activity with the goal of making the activity systematic and ultimately more likely to be successful.

Some security experts have spoken out against Trusted Computing, believing it will provide computer manufacturers and software authors with increased control to impose restrictions on what users are able to do with their computers.

Both licenses impose a kind of reciprocity condition requiring authors of extensions to the software to license those extensions with the respective license of the original work.

Microsoft and IBM at various times have been influential enough to impose order on IT and the resultant standardizations allowed specialist software to flourish.

Widely circulated on Usenet in its day, and well-known in the computer software industry the article compares and contrasts real programmers, who use punch cards and write programs in FORTRAN or assembly language, with modern-day " quiche eaters " who use programming languages such as Pascal which support structured programming and impose restrictions meant to prevent or minimize common bugs due to inadvertent programming logic errors.