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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Proprietary_softwareProprietary software - Wikipedia

    Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software ...

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      Closed source (or proprietary software) means computer...

  2. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › Proprietary_softwareProprietary software - Simple English Wikipedia, the free...

    Proprietary software (or closed source software) does not let people see or change source code of the computer software. It is the opposite of free software . Proprietary software is usually created by businesses who want to sell their software, but some programs that are free to use are still proprietary because the user is not ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_proprietary_source-availableList of proprietary source-available software - Wikipedia

    This is a list of proprietary source-available software, which has available source code, but is not classified as free software or open-source software. In some cases, this type of software is originally sold and released without the source code, and the source code becomes available later.

    Title
    Original Author
    Original Release
    Source Code Availability
    Amazon Lumberyard
    Amazon
    2002
    2016
    Apple DOS
    Apple Inc.
    1986
    2015
    Photoshop 1.0.1 [7]
    Adobe Systems Inc.
    1990
    February 2013 [8]
    Bitstream Vera (font)
    Bitstream Inc.
    Unknown
    2003

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  5. www.gartner.com › glossary › proprietary-softwareDefinition of Proprietary Software - Gartner

    Proprietary software is owned by an organization or an individual, as opposed to “public-domain software,” which is freely distributed. The explosion in the use of the Internet has expanded the reach of public-domain software since it is now much easier to transmit these programs.