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Flashcards in Open Source Software & Licensing Deck (13)
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1
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GPL

A

General Public License

2
Q

FSF

A

Free Software Foundation

3
Q

Who founded FSF

A

Richard Stallman

4
Q

What are the 4 freedoms of FSF

A

0: Freedom to run the program as you wish for any purpose
1: Freedom to study how the program works and change it it if you wish (access to source code)
2: Freedom to redistribute the copies so you can help your neighbor
3: Freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (access to source code)

5
Q

what are the twe GNU GPL?

A

GPLv2

GPLv3

6
Q

how does the GPL ensure companies dont appropriate software for their own proprietary use?

A

by manditing derivitives of GPL software also be GPL

7
Q

what does GPLv3 cover that v2 does not?

A

Hardware. It extends the 4 freedoms onto hardware as well

8
Q

What notable linux software still uses v2 and why

A

the kernal itself, so proprietary hardware can use it

9
Q

What is the OSI

A

Open Source Inititiave

10
Q

who founded the OSI

A

Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond

11
Q

What is the basis of the OSI

A

Promote Open source software in a business world

12
Q

What are two other licesnes that are housed under the OSI

A

MIT, BSD

also Apache, FreeBSD, MPL2, NCSA, OpenLDAP, PublicDomain…

13
Q

diff between OSI and FSF

A

FSF only support GNU license while OSI supports all thegood ones