Module 4: Opensource Software And Licensing

Question 1

What is closed source license?

Answer 1

Users can use the machine code but cannot see the source code

Question 2

What is open source?

Answer 2

Users have right to obtain the software code and to expand and modify programs for their own use

Question 3

Ownership remains with who?

Answer 3

With the company or person that created it

Question 4

Linux is under which license

Answer 4

GNU general public license

Question 5

What is FOSS?

Answer 5

Free and open source software- software that have been given up and anybody has the right to modify it and redistribute it

Question 6

What is the FSF

Answer 6

Free software foundation
Richard Stallman
Share, study and modify source code
GNU PUBLIC LICENSE

Question 7

What is copyleft

Answer 7

Making a program free and requiring all modified versions of the program to be free as well

Question 8

What is Open Source Initiative

Answer 8

Bruce Perez’s
Source should be freely available and no restrictions should be placed
Set of principles
BSD- Berkeley software distribution