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Proprietary Software Licenses and EULA

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Proprietary software is computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code,[1] but sometimes patent rights.[2]. A Proprietry

A license for such software maintains the vendors rights tot hat software and affords the end user the use of the software under certain conditions and are usually aggreed to in a End User License Agreement (EULA).

For further information see these articles from Wikipedia

Examples of Proprietary Licenses

I have come across these examples of licenses.

  • RocketTheme Licenses - The RocketTheme Proprietary Use License (v1.3) and others. You should also look at their copyright notice for the site (link in the footer).
  • License & Terms of Service - JoomlaWorks
    • JoomlaWorks includes the following copyright notice in their code which points to this page.
      /**
       * @version     3.0.x
       * @package     Simple Image Gallery Pro
       * @author      JoomlaWorks - http://www.joomlaworks.net
       * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2006 - 2014 JoomlaWorks Ltd. All rights reserved.
       * @license     http://www.joomlaworks.net/license
       */
  • License | Artetics - This has really simple and easy to understand Proprietry Use License. There is also a DMCA statement.

Examples of Eula

  • RSComments - Terms and Conditions
    By checking this, you agree with the following:
    
    1. To accept full responsibility for the comment that you submit.
    2. To use this function only for lawful purposes.
    3. Not to post defamatory, abusive, offensive, racist, sexist, threatening, vulgar, obscene, hateful or otherwise inappropriate comments, or to post comments which will constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability.
    4. Not to post or make available any material which is protected by copyright, trade mark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trade mark or any other proprietary right.
    5. To evaluate for yourself the accuracy of any opinion, advice or other content.

 

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