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Source Code is a human-readable collection of instructions in a programming language used to produce a computer program.

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Software licensing - Pre 1970's

Your question is very unclear and confused, but the simple answer is: before the 1970s, software wasn't copyrightable in the US, so the very idea of "licensing" doesn't apply. You cannot put a copyrig …
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