Open Source Software & Licensing

Question 1

GPL

Answer 1

General Public License

Question 2

FSF

Answer 2

Free Software Foundation

Question 3

Who founded FSF

Answer 3

Richard Stallman

Question 4

What are the 4 freedoms of FSF

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

what are the twe GNU GPL?

Answer 5

GPLv2

GPLv3

Question 6

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

Answer 6

by manditing derivitives of GPL software also be GPL

Question 7

what does GPLv3 cover that v2 does not?

Answer 7

Hardware. It extends the 4 freedoms onto hardware as well

Question 8

What notable linux software still uses v2 and why

Answer 8

the kernal itself, so proprietary hardware can use it

Question 9

What is the OSI

Answer 9

Open Source Inititiave

Question 10

who founded the OSI

Answer 10

Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond

Question 11

What is the basis of the OSI

Answer 11

Promote Open source software in a business world

Question 12

What are two other licesnes that are housed under the OSI

Answer 12

MIT, BSD

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

Question 13

diff between OSI and FSF

Answer 13

FSF only support GNU license while OSI supports all thegood ones