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  1. 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 ...

    • Closed source

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

  2. 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
    2002
    2016
    1986
    2015
    1990
    February 2013 [8]
    Bitstream Vera (font)
    Unknown
    2003
  3. 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 allowed to ...

  4. This is a list of notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open-source software, or into the public domain. In some cases, the company continues to publish proprietary releases alongside the non-proprietary version.

    Title
    Original Release
    Relicensed Release
    Initial Free Relicense
    1995
    2022
    2004
    2007
    1990s
    2008
    1996
    2004
  5. 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.

  6. Software licenses and copyright law. Most distributed software can be categorized according to its license type (see table). Two common categories for software under copyright law, and therefore with licenses which grant the licensee specific rights, are proprietary software and free and open-source software (FOSS).

  7. Closed source (or proprietary software) means computer programs whose source code is not published. The source code is not shared with the public for anyone to look at or change. Closed source is the opposite of open source. Most companies who sell their software for money make it closed source so people cannot easily change it or copy it for free.