You will find two different software licenses. Compare and contrast the two. Who

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You will find two different software licenses. Compare and contrast the two. Who uses each type of license? Compare an open source license, like Creative Commons or the GNU license with Microsoft or Adobe’s license, if you wish. around two pages please. reading is below. open image in new window to view larger size. thank you

The software industry has a major problem. The problem stems from the very nature of software. Anything digital can be copied. As we have seen in our discussions about copyright and contracts, the software industry is quite concerned about the distribution of its products. If the distribution of software cannot be controlled, the industry will collapse. There are severaltacticsthatcan be used to control the distribution of software. Software is written in a form called source code which is a type of code that knowledgeable humans can read. Most programmers don't want to share their source code with others who are not part of the project. If you understand whatever computer language the source code is written in, examining the source code could allow you to duplicate the program and, perhaps, do commercial damage to the developer. The computer does not actually run source code. Through one of two types of software utilities, the computer changes the source code into binary code which it can understand. These two types of software utilities are interpreters and compilers. The difference is commercially important. An interpreter requires that you make the source code available to it. You need two pieces of software to run a program: the interpreter and the source code. This still poses a distribution problem, one more serious than simply possessing the source code by itself. Every time that you want to run the program, you need access to the interpreter and the source code. Compilers, on the other hand, take the source code and, once all errors are squashed out of the code, turn the source code into machine readable binary code which humans can't read. Unlike interpreters, compilers save the binary code in files which can then be run without reference to either the compiler or source code. The commercial advantage here is that the software can be distributed without the consumer's knowing what is in the software's code. Most commercial software is compiled. Compiled software usually runs faster than interpreted code so the consumer gets a benefit. The

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There are two types of software license which are as follows:

1. Open source software license

2. Closed source software license

So now let us understand what are these two and what is the difference between these two types of the software license.

Open source software license is the license that does not own any kind of copyright which means the developer has developed the code and it is available to all the user and the code can be re-written or edit at the point of time. While in the case of closed source, the developer or company who has built the software has all the right of that software. The software can be used by the public but the user will not able to see or edit the code according to its own requirement.

In closed software, there is much more security and it is not easily hackable as compared to the open source due to code available on the internet.There is a point when you install any software you have to check a box which state "I agree to all terms and conditions" without that you cannot complete the installation process and by which you cannot use the software.

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