From the course: Programming Foundations: Open-Source Licensing

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What is a software license?

What is a software license?

From the course: Programming Foundations: Open-Source Licensing

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What is a software license?

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- [Voiceover] A software license is a grant of permission for an individual or entity other than than software copyright owner to exercise one or more of the exclusive rights held by the copyright owner. If you recall from our earlier discussion on copyrights, the rights incident to copyright ownership are the rights to copy, create derivative works, distribute, perform, and display the work among other things. In the software context, the rights to copy, make derivative works, and distribution are the most relevant. So what does a Simple Software License look like? Well the following is a simple license. Copyright 2016, John V. Petersen, and then here's a right statement: Anybody is free to use the software for any purpose. These are the four parts of a copyright notice. The words copyright or the copyright symbol, the year of the first publication, the rights owner which is me in this case, and then the right statement, and it is this right statement that is of interest here because…

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