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software license

governs the use and/or redistribution of software
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software license

Summary

software license is a type of license[1]. It draws 578 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_license category, ranking #2 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • software license's instance of is recorded as type of license[3].
  • software license's subclass of is recorded as license[4].
  • software license's subclass of is recorded as copyright license[5].
  • software license's Commons category is recorded as Software licenses[6].
  • software license's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 975384[7].
  • software license's facet of is recorded as information technology law[8].
  • software license's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox software licence[9].
  • software license's different from is recorded as copyright license[10].
  • software license's Quora topic ID is recorded as Eula-1[11].
  • software license's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19662086[12].
  • software license's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as software-licenses[13].
  • software license's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780952101[14].
  • software license's EntitySchema for this class is recorded as {'id': 'E110', 'entity-type': 'entity-schema'}[15].

Why It Matters

software license draws 578 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_license category, ranking #2 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

proprietary software

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_software-license_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{software license}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/software-license}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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