NDG linux essentials m4

Linux source code is available to:

• Employees of the FBI, CIA and NSA with top secret clearance

• Only employees of the Linux Foundation

• Only university researchers with a government grant

• Anyone who has the knowledge needed to access it

Source code refers to:

• The interface that software uses to talk to the kernel

• The version of a program that the computer runs on the CPU

• The license that dictates how you may use and share the software

• A human-readable version of computer software

Open source means:

• You must share your changes

• You must support the software you share

• You can view the software’s source code

• You can modify the software’s source code

• You cannot charge anything for the software

A license where you don’t have access to the source code is called:

• Closed source

• Impaired source

• Sourceless

• Open source

Open source licenses differ, but generally agree that:

• You should have access to the source code of software

• You are not allowed to sell the software

• You must redistribute your changes

• You should be able modify the software as you wish

Richard Stallman is associated with:

• The Apache foundation

• Microsoft

• The Free Software Foundation

• BSD Unix

• The Open Source Initiative

A copyleft provision in a software license means:

• If you redistribute the software, you must distribute the source to any changes you make

• You must provide free copies of the software if you use it

• You give up your copyright to the software

• You may not link against third party closed source software

• You must provide support for your modifications

The largest difference between the GPLv2 and BSD licenses is:

• Nothing, they are virtually identical

• Only BSD allows commercial use

• BSD has no copyleft provision

• GPLv2 requires assigning copyright to the FSF

• GPLv2 is not approved by the OSI

The Free Software Foundation believes that:

• People should write software with no expectation of making money

• Software should not have copyright

• Software should be free to share

• No money should ever change hands

• Software should be free to modify

Which of the following licenses was made by the FSF?

• GPLv3

• BSD

• MIT

• Creative Commons

• Apache