Software licence

Quality:

Software license - governs the use and/or redistribution of software. Article “Software licence” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Software licence”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6552^nd place) and edited by 1225 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 417 times in Simple English Wikipedia (6865^th place) and cited 59601 times in all languages (2731^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #396 in October 2008
• Global: #7653 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2020 in September 2009
• Global: #9288 in September 2010

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Software license		82.5885
2	Catalan (ca) Llicència de programari		54.6507
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ліцензія на програмне забезпечення		40.8691
4	Hebrew (he) רישיון תוכנה		40.026
5	Chinese (zh) 软件许可证		38.9878
6	Portuguese (pt) Licença de software		34.6755
7	Tamil (ta) மென்பொருள் உரிமம்		25.604
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Softverska licenca		24.0043
9	French (fr) Licence de logiciel		20.2767
10	Italian (it) Licenza (informatica)		19.7392

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software license		4 834 012
2	Spanish (es) Licencia de software		2 357 377
3	Polish (pl) Licencja oprogramowania		1 768 007
4	French (fr) Licence de logiciel		818 405
5	Russian (ru) Лицензия на программное обеспечение		534 589
6	Portuguese (pt) Licença de software		368 880
7	Italian (it) Licenza (informatica)		310 956
8	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェアライセンス		285 033
9	Chinese (zh) 软件许可证		227 795
10	Ukrainian (uk) Ліцензія на програмне забезпечення		181 709

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software license		11 439
2	Russian (ru) Лицензия на программное обеспечение		3 109
3	Spanish (es) Licencia de software		1 118
4	Chinese (zh) 软件许可证		737
5	Simple English (simple) Software licence		694
6	French (fr) Licence de logiciel		679
7	Polish (pl) Licencja oprogramowania		565
8	Italian (it) Licenza (informatica)		371
9	Portuguese (pt) Licença de software		360
10	Indonesian (id) Lisensi perangkat lunak		324

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software license		254
2	Spanish (es) Licencia de software		135
3	French (fr) Licence de logiciel		135
4	Polish (pl) Licencja oprogramowania		114
5	Italian (it) Licenza (informatica)		69
6	Portuguese (pt) Licença de software		48
7	Dutch (nl) Softwarelicentie		46
8	Russian (ru) Лицензия на программное обеспечение		36
9	Czech (cs) Softwarová licence		34
10	Simple English (simple) Software licence		30

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Thai (th) สัญญาอนุญาตซอฟต์แวร์		2
2	Catalan (ca) Llicència de programari		1
3	Danish (da) Softwarelicens		1
4	Turkish (tr) Yazılım lisansı		1
5	Arabic (ar) رخصة البرمجيات		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Proqram lisenziyası		0
7	Belarusian (be) Ліцэнзія на праграмнае забеспячэнне		0
8	Czech (cs) Softwarová licence		0
9	Greek (el) Άδεια λογισμικού		0
10	English (en) Software license		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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