1. Objective Overview
• Discuss at the types of software licenses
• Discuss the types of commercial software
licenses
• Discuss other topics brought up by
software security Liscenses
3. Computer software-
intellectual property
• Source code is protected by copyright laws
4. Commercial Software
• licensed to be sold for profit by the
companies that create it
• Very strict license, protecting copying or
changing the software
5. Shareware
• distributed for a low cost and free for a
limited time
• usually used as a trial or “free sample”
7. Public Domain
• License allows changing the software and
giving it away
• Usually the copyright has expired or the
rights have been waived
8. Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS)
• users have the freedom to do anything the
wish with it, including re-sell and make
changes
• must republish under same license, so
everyone can benefit
10. Source Code
• the instructions that make up the software
• able to be altered to change the software
• written in languages such as C, Java, and
basic
12. Security
• FOSS can be secure in a sense that many
people can see and change problems within
the software
• FOSS has a chance of malicious users
changing the software for the worse
13. Transparency
• software is seen by all, so it can be verified
if changed or not
• one example- electric voting machines
14. Commercial License
• types of commercial licenses
• End User License Agreement (EULA) is the
terms and conditions agreed to when
software is installed
15. Commercial License
(cont.)
• Single user license- 1 user can use the
software
• multiuser license- about 4 people, meant
for families
16. Commercial License
(cont.)
• Site license- software is installed on as
many users as the organization wants
• used for big organizations and often
expensive
17. Copy Protection
• commercial software producers try to
protect against piracy
• use things mechanisms such as activation
codes and serial numbers
18. Protection
Organizations
• help stop piracy
• Digital Rights Management(DRM)- protect
media
• Federation Against Software Theft (FAST)-
help software companies
19. Review
• Commercial Software, Freeware,
Shareware, Public Domain, and FOSS
• Commercial Licenses- single, multi, and site
• transparency?
• FAST (Federation Against Software Theft)
