Softwarové licence a jejich využití pro autory softwaru

Abstract

This Diploma thesis is about software licenses and their usage for software authors. Target of this work is to find out, which types of software licenses are nowadays common to use and which of them are optimal or the most advantageous for the software authors. In the theoretical part of this work there are information about software (its definition, classification, history and reasons for its development) and also information about copyright protection of the software, about licenses and context between all these things. In the practical part of this work there are described particular types of software licenses. With a use of SWOT analysis there are described strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of these licenses. Also there is a layout of the mechanism how the software author could decide about the suitable license for the spread of his/her work. This mechanism is described by the simplified flow diagram.