This is a guide to how to license research software. It collects together the advice we give to researchers on how ... The choice generally comes down to how permissive you want to be. Either you put ...

Therefore, any computer program is in principle copyright protected and necessarily requires a license for distribution to third parties, regardless of whether the computer program is small or large.

Permissive licenses, such as the MIT License and the Apache 2.0 License, “grant users freedom in using, modifying, and distributing the software.” Copyleft licenses, on the other hand ...

In the world of software, a perpetual license means that users can run the program for as long as they wish. Software has traditionally been sold with a perpetual license. However, subscription ...

Concordia University's software licenses are centralized through site license agreements for the commonly used software. When a new centrally-managed computer is purchased with Concordia funds, it is ...

In March, Redis — the company formerly known as Redis Labs — switched from the BSD 3-clause license, a more permissive ...