The Apache Software Foundation uses various software licenses to distribute software and documentation, to accept regular contributions from individuals and corporations, and to accept larger grants of existing software products. We are also in the process of updating the Apache licenses to reflect changes in the community regarding patents and contributing.
These licenses help us […]

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Found this at Bitpipe, its very useful for companies that make their own applications in house.
Think you’re not in the software development business? Think again. Even companies that make the business decision to rely on off-the-shelf software wind up doing some of their own software development to customize things for their environment. […]

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Dell has had problems with software licensing when they ship pre-installed software on their computers.  The software is perfectly legal but Dell is forcing customers to agree to terms and conditions with out producing the proper documents.  Here is one man’s story.
“Kat and I just received the Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook we ordered from Dell […]

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Great essay exploring all the aspect of software licensing for ISV’s and small software firms.
This essay is written from the perspective of wanting to have a financially successful software small business. (By financially successful, I mean that it can provide a nice income for the employees and owner, not that it must produce great wealth.) […]

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 Software Licensing - Basic Definition
Allowing an individual or group to use a piece  of software. Nearly all applications are licensed rather than sold.  There are a variety of different types of software licenses. Some are based on the number machines on which the licensed program can run whereas others are based on the number of […]

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Implementing Software Asset Management processes allows you to capitalize on software license reallocation opportunities, achieve volume licensing discounts, decrease software support costs, increase infrastructure security and resilience, justify future purchasing activities, and ensure license agreement…to read read the full white paper click here

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