Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 323.001
This is the official text of Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 323.001, part of Texas’s Business & Commerce Code — governs commercial transactions and general business practices.
Not legal advice. This page reproduces the official text of a government statute for reference only. Laws change, and how a statute applies depends on your specific facts. For advice about your situation, consult a licensed attorney in your state.
§ 323.001. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this chapter:
(1) "Freeware" means software distributed to a person free of charge, regardless of whether use of the software is subject to certain restrictions.
(2) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(3) "Interactive computer service" means any information service or system that provides or enables computer access to the Internet by multiple users.
(4) "Internet" means the largest nonproprietary nonprofit cooperative public computer network, popularly known as the Internet.
(5) "Shareware" means copyrighted software for which the copyright owner sets certain conditions for the software's distribution and use, including requiring payment to the copyright owner after a person who has secured a copy of the software decides to use the software, regardless of whether the payment is for additional support or functionality of the software.
(1) "Freeware" means software distributed to a person free of charge, regardless of whether use of the software is subject to certain restrictions.
(2) "Institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003, Education Code.
(3) "Interactive computer service" means any information service or system that provides or enables computer access to the Internet by multiple users.
(4) "Internet" means the largest nonproprietary nonprofit cooperative public computer network, popularly known as the Internet.
(5) "Shareware" means copyrighted software for which the copyright owner sets certain conditions for the software's distribution and use, including requiring payment to the copyright owner after a person who has secured a copy of the software decides to use the software, regardless of whether the payment is for additional support or functionality of the software.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
Dealing with a business matter in Texas?
See all Texas Business lawyers
About this page: Statute text is reproduced from official government publishers via the
Open US Law dataset
(Vaquill AI, snapshot v2026.08, CC BY 4.0). Primary legislative text like this is public domain under the government-edicts doctrine
(Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). We link every section back to its official source so you can verify it independently.