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Bloom Taxonomy: Knowing
Term | Definition |
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Software piracy | The unauthorised act of sharing, copying, or reproducing another person's program without permission. |
Intellectual Property | A person's creative invention, artistic work, or design. In relation to software it can be referred to as your unique work. |
Plagiarism | The act of stealing someone else's work or their ideas, and using them as their own. |
Shareware | A software licence that allows you to download the software for free and use it for a limited time that is specified by the developers. You may request to continue using the program for longer by paying. Some features may also only be accessed by paying. |
Freeware | A software licence that allows you to download the software for free and use it indefinitely. You may not decompile or change anything in the program. |
Public Domain Software | A software licence that allows you to download the software for free, share it with others, decompile it or change the functionality of the program. |
Copyright Law | The legal right of having ownership over intellectual property to prove that it is yours. It gives you the right to distribute it however you want. |
Reverse Engineering | The act of converting machine code into source code so that you can find out how it was created, and produce a better or updated version of the software. |
Decompilation | Converting the machine code of a program back into source code so that you can interpret it and understand how the program was made. |
Network Use | This has allowed us to collaborate together in order to create software, and is the platform (such as the internet) in which we distribute most of our software. |