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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making…

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Origin

Licenses

Legal basis

Exclusive rights

Interoperability with software and hardware

Abandonment by proprietors

Pricing and economics

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Proprietary software

Nodes135
Edges134
Triples75
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014815
Components1

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Proprietary software

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related to Abandonment by proprietors · 12
Proprietary software → Arx Fatalis, FOSS-based, If, List, More, Proprietary, Proprietors, Realms, Software, Some, Sometimes, Support
related to Multi-licensing · 11
Proprietary software → Examples, Free, Free Software Foundation, Java, Microsoft Windows, MySQL, Non-copyleft, Sendmail, Some, The, This
related to Inspection and modification of source code · 10
Proprietary software → For, Internet, Pine, Secure Shell, Some, The, They, This, Vendors, While
related to Licenses · 9
Proprietary software → According, For, In, SaaS, Software, The, These, Traditionally, United States
related to Legal basis · 6
Proprietary software → EULA, License, Most, Software, The, Vendors
related to Software limited to certain hardware configurations · 6
Proprietary software → Appeals, Apple, Ninth Circuit, Proprietary, This, United States Court
related to External links · 4
Proprietary software → Media, Proprietary, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Pricing and economics · 3
Proprietary software → Proprietary, The, With
related to Redistribution · 3
Proprietary software → Another, In, Proprietary
related to Proprietary file formats and protocols · 2
Proprietary software → Proprietary, Such

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software proprietary source code use free copyright license available may licenses computer user open-source also vendors law usually needed microsoft

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Proprietary softwareis asubset of non-free software0.90text
CC BY-NC are not deemed proprietaryinstance ofnon-commercial licenses0.80text
but are non-freeinstance ofnon-commercial licenses0.80text
freemium are also usedinstance ofalthough other revenue models0.80text
the first-sale doctrineinstance ofin order to avoid limitations of copyright0.80text
PHP or JavaScript is available at run time.RedistributionProprietary software vendors can prohibit the users from sharing the software with othersinstance ofand the source code for programs written in scripting languages0.80text
PHP or JavaScript is available at run timeinstance ofand the source code for programs written in scripting languages0.80text
Proprietary softwarerelated to Abandonment by proprietorsProprietary0.60section
Proprietary softwarerelated to Abandonment by proprietorsIf0.60section
Proprietary softwarerelated to Abandonment by proprietorsProprietors0.60section
Proprietary softwarerelated to Abandonment by proprietorsSupport0.60section
Proprietary softwarerelated to Abandonment by proprietorsSometimes0.60section

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