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Normal commercial software is licensed under some pretty restrictive terms; terms you wouldn't agree to buying any piece of property under. You used to get your license in the box you buy software in, but more commonly these days it's electronically. This is often in the form of an EndUserLicenseAgreement: the person who "bought" the software might not be the eventual user, and [software companies|MicrosoftCorporation] wanted to close that loophole pretty quickly.
The [GNU] project turned licensing upside down by introducing CopyLeft; a license with different restrictions: the software was still licensed (it wasn't released to the PublicDomain), but with terms saying that if you gave someone the program you also had to give them the SourceCode for the program if they asked for it; and under the same license. That way you cannot take software released under a license like the [GPL] and take away the freedoms it affords you.
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+Software can also be DualLicensed, commonly released free under the GPL, and commercially under a second license.
See Category:License for a list of licences.
