Software licensing is a contract of agreement between the software publisher and the end user, who sometimes referred to as the End User License Agreement or EULA.
However, software licensing can also be a paper agreement and most often engrafted in the software itself as part of installation process.
If the user does not agree to the software licensing terms, he or she can also indicate this with a click. This aborts the installation process.
Many times end users click in agreement whether they actually read the license or not.
Software licensing secures the copyright by placing restrictions on the end user in relation to the product. Duplication for purposes other than backup, editing code, installation on more than one computer, or changing the program in any way is usually disallowed.
The software licenses might also restrict reverse the engineering and bypassing controls intended to bring down on pirating.
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