TL;DR: An API licensing agreement governs the terms under which one party, the API provider, grants another, the API consumer, permission to access and use its application programming interface. It looks similar to a traditional software licence on the surface but functions very differently: you’re licensing ongoing access to a live, changeable service, not a […]
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TL;DR: A software licensing agreement gives someone permission to use software without transferring ownership of it. The owner keeps the copyright; the licensee gets defined rights to use it, within limits. The biggest and most expensive confusion is between three different things that get treated as interchangeable: a software licence (permission to use), SaaS (access […]


