- A license or licence in the sphere of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a document, contract or agreement giving permission or the 'right' to a legally-definable entity to do something (such as manufacture a product or to use a service), or to apply something (such as a trademark), with the objective of achieving commercial gain. Typically, the party giving the permission is referred to as the 'licensor' and the party receiving the licence as the 'licencee' or 'licensee'. To be able to license a right, the licensor must have legal title or 'proprietary right' to it. The licensor typically offers the license with specific limitations, such as the period of use, the territory of use, etc. Both the licensor and the licensee have specific obligations which is expressed in the body of the agreement or is expressed in the law of the country or region or an international covenant which governs the performance of the agreement.
- Chinese City Requires Net Cafes to Use Legitimate Software (PC World via Yahoo! News)
Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province, has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated server software with licensed versions. Cafes that don't will lose their license to operate, but some are grumbling about the cost of installing legitimate software.
- VMware Releases Revamped Desktop Software (PC World via Yahoo! News)
VMware on Tuesday released VMware View 3, new software aimed at providing desktop virtualization, application virtualization and management of virtual desktops in one product.
- Altair offering free training, software licenses for unemployed engineers (Crain's Detroit Business)
Altair Engineering is offering free training courses in advanced, cross-industry software and 90-day, renewable software licenses for unemployed engineers in Southeast Michigan.
- MSC.Software and FEV Partner to Combine Best-in-Class Multi-Body Dynamics Technology and Engine/Powertrain Domain ... (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
SANTA ANA, Calif., Dec. 3, 2008 -- MSC.Software Corp. , the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions, including simulation software and services, today announced a new license and distribution agreement with FEV Motorentechnik GmbH in Aachen, Germany.
- FrontRange Solutions Eases Software License Management With New License Manager 3.0 (Centre Daily Times)
FrontRange Solutions , which earlier this year acquired SAM solutions specialist Centennial Software, has today announced the launch of License Manager 3.0 , the solution which helps organizations automate the process of managing software license entitlements.
- Open source - Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's sources. Some consider it as a philosophy, and others consider it as a pragmatic methodology. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with the rise of the Internet and its enabling of diverse production models, communication paths, and interactive communities. Subsequently, open source software became the most prominent face of open source.
- Source Code - Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. In modern programming languages, the source code which constitutes a program is usually in several text files, but the same source code may be printed in a book or recorded on tape (usually without a filesystem). The term is typically used in the context of a particular piece of computer software. A computer program's source code is the collection of files that can be converted from human-readable form to an equivalent computer-executable form. The source code is either converted into an executable file by a compiler for a particular computer architecture, or executed on the fly from the human readable form with the aid of an interpreter.
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