UNIT 1 THE WEB

7)USER LICENCES
The information and software that we find online may be protected by some form of licence.We usually have to pay for commercial content or software,and people can have legal problems if they try to distribute or use such materials without the proper licence.
In order to avoid problems with the exchange of software,public licences were created.The most common example is the General Public Licence.These lincences aim to protect the free distribution,modification and use of software.As a result,any software under this licence is free software,which cannot be owned by anyone.The Linux operation system and the LibreOffice package are examples of free,open source software taht are GPL protected.
Creative Commons Licences allow us to give people certain rights for using content that we have created.You can get CCL online if you fulfil the following conditions.