creations of the mind
Intellectual Property
legal right that grants creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution for a limited time
Copyright
protects various forms of creative expression
copyright
process of granting permission to use intellectual property rights in exchange for compensations or other agreed-upon terms
Licensing
type of licensing that grants users the right to access, modify, and distribute the code of a software program
Open Source Licensing
GNU
GNU’s Not Unix
free and open source operating system project
GNU
widely used open source license created by the free software foundation
GNU General public license
a copy left license
GPL