What is Software Licence

A legal instrument (usually by way of contract law, with or without printed material) governing the use or redistribution of software. For instance, under US copyright law all software is copyright protected, except material in the public domain. A typical software license grants an end-user permission to use one or more copies of software in ways where such a use would otherwise potentially constitute copyright infringement of the software owner's exclusive rights under copyright law.

Software Piracy

Martin Harran (Computer Science Department, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland), Nigel McKelvey (Computer Science Department, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland), Kevin Curran (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland), and Nadarajah Subaginy (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland)