A proprietary licence is used for software you pay for. Proprietary licences prevent users from copying and freely distributing the software. It may limit how many people who can use it, or how long it may be used for.
There are benefits of a proprietary licence, these can be divided between the interests of the business which sells the software and the customers of the software.
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