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SocialEthical Issues
Term | Definition |
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Software Piracy | the illegal copying, distribution, or use of software. |
Intellectual Property | the fruits of mental labour; something that belongs to your mind or intellect. Your own creative resource. |
Plagiarism | stealing someone else’s ideas and using them as your own, and is illegal. |
Shareware | software that is available free of charge and often distributed informally for evaluation, after which a fee may be requested for continued use. |
Freeware | software that is available free of charge. |
Public Domain Software | software that is not protected by a copyright and so there is no particular owner or the author has given up ownership rights, leaving the software available for everyone for use. |
Copyright Law | a form of protection to authors of "original works of authorship." This includes literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and certain other creative works. |
Reverse Engineering | the analysis of a program by examining its source code and structure in order to develop a similar product, or a product that interfaces with the product being analysed. |
Decompilation | the process of converting machine executable code into assembler code so it can be more easily understood. |
Network use | the use of networks to communicate with others |