Friday, May 30, 2014

Commercial license vs open source License


Commercial license vs open source License  



A software license is a legally binding agreement that specifies the terms of use for an application and defines the rights of the software producer and of the end-user.

Commercial Vs Open source License 

-> In commercial license the ownership/property right of that software/product remains with its Publisher .
-> In open source license Every User of that particular product has Right to do anything with it and Ownership not limited to its publisher .

-> Commercial license is more restrictive to its user .
-> Open source license Gives lot more freedom to its user .

-> The user has No right to read , modify or redistribute Source code as its not available to public .
->  It is based on the thought that if the user and programmer can read,modify and redistribute the source code of apps , software shall develop . users of software will also help to improve the software and helps to fix bugs in it .


-> All right regarding the software are reserved to copyright holder and only limited out as well defined rights regarding software are provided to end user .
-> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing Programs from different source .


-> Example of open source license are

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" license
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" license
GNU General Public License (GPL)
GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
MIT license
Mozilla Public License 2.0
Common Development and Distribution License
Eclipse Public License

-> Example of Propreitary license are copyRight ,Microsoft EULA etc .

->Proprietary license are mostly paid .
->open source license are mostly free ,

-> Licensed by developer only, licensee granted rights to use
-> Licensed, credit given to original developer when modified


->Developer has ownership right .
->Developer has no ownership right


->Only developer can modify the source code.
-> Anyone can Modify the Source code 


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