Software License Schemes

● Free ware

● Share ware

● Open Source

● Closed Source

● Artistic License

● GNU

Freeware

Free to useNo change allowed

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Shareware

Free to use for a limited timeNo change allowed

Open Source

Free to use ( If you can handle compiling code)Changes allowed – even encouraged!

Closed Source

Not Free ( usually )

No change allowed

● Copyright EULA ( End User License Agreetment)

Artistic License

● Free to use – within limits● Change allowed

GNU

● Free to use● Change allowed – New programs

developed must also adhere to the same rules

GPL and OSS(OSI)

GPL license နနဲ႔ Software ေတတြမမမမ်ားလမ သလလလို GPL License ကလနဲ Version 3 အထလ ေရမကက္လမတယက္။

အနဲဒဒီမမမ Linus Torvalds က GPL v3 မမမ ပပါတနဲတဲ့ အခမခလ႕စညက္မ်ားမမဥက္မ်ားစညက္မ်ားကမက္မ်ား ေတတြ မႀကလခကက္တနဲတဲ့အတတြကက္ GPL v3

ကလလို လကက္မခခခလလိုငက္ဘဘမ်ားလလလို႔ ဆလိုလလမလာျပနက္လလလို႔ Richard Stallman က ဆဒီလဒီကတြနက္ ေတမငက္ၾကမမ်ားက Linus ရနဲ႕ အလမက္မမမ

သလိုခမ်ားရကက္ ေလမကက္ အ ေလာျခအတငက္ ေတမက္ ေတမက္ႀကဒီမ်ား ေဆတြမ်ား ေခတြမ်ားခနဲတဲ့ရပပါ ေသမ်ားတယက္။ ေနမကက္မမ Linus Torvalds က

လကက္ခခသတြမမ်ားတမ။

1998 ခလိုခမစက္မမမ OSS (Open Source Software) ေတတြ OSD (Open Source Definition) ေတတြ

အတတြကက္ဆလလိုၿပဒီမ်ား OSI (Open Source Intiactive) ဆလလိုတနဲတဲ့ corporation တစက္ခလို ေပၚ ေပပါကက္လမပပါတယက္။

Eric S. Raymond ကစၿပဒီမ်ား 1997 မမမ စတညက္ ေထမငက္တမပပါ။ သဘက ေတမတဲ့ Source ေတတြပပါ မမမ ေ၀ ေပမ်ားဖလလို႔

ရညက္ရတြယက္ပပါတယက္။ Open Source ဆလလိုတနဲတဲ့အမညက္ကလလို စတငက္သလိုခမ်ားစတြနဲခနဲတဲ့တမက ေတမတဲ့ Netscape (Mozilla)ပပါပနဲ။

OSI ရနဲ႕ Logo က ေတမတဲ့ လာျမနက္မမလလလို ဂ ငယက္ ေလမ်ားဗမ။ CopyRight EULA– ေတတြ ေတမက္ ေတမက္မလိုနက္မ်ားၾကပလိုခပနဲ။

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Open Alternatives

Application Type Windows Platform URL

Word Processors Microsoft Word Writer www.OpenOffice.org

Spreedsheet Microsoft Excel Calc www.OpenOffice.org

Presentation Software

Microsoft PowerPoint

Impress www.OpenOffice.org

Database forms Microsoft Access Base www.OpenOffice.org

Image editing Adobe Photoshop Gimp www.gimp.org

Vector Design Adobe Illustrator Inkscape www.inkscape.org

Publishing QuarkXPress Scribus www.scribus.net

Web Design Adobe Dreamweaver Kompozer http://kompozer.net

Open Alternatives

Application Type Windows Platform URL

Music Production Digidesign Pro Tools Ardour http://ardour.org

Audio editing Steinberg Wavelab Audacityhttp://audicity.sourc

eforge.net

Web browser Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox www.mozilla.org

Email Outlook Express Mozilla Thunderbird www.mozilla.org

Project Management Microsoft Project KPlato www.koffice.org

PDF viewer Adobe AcrobatEvince Document

Viewerhttp://projects.gnom

e.org/evince

Finance Intuit Quicken GnuCash www.gnucash.org