Unit 5 - Impacts of digital technology

Question 1

What are the 3 legislations relevant?

Answer 1

• The Data Protection Act 2018
• Computer Misuse Act 1990
• Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988

Question 2

What are software licenses?

Answer 2

Software is protected by copyright law. It may only be used if you created it yourself or you are licensed to use it

Question 3

What are the 2 types of licenses?

Answer 3

• Open source
• Prorietary

Question 4

What are advantages of open source?

Answer 4

Users can edit the program/software to improve it to do what they need/want, so errors can be fixed (by anyone and users can learn how the software works.
Freely accessible so do not have to pay.

Question 5

What are disadvantages of open source?

Answer 5

cannot charge a fee and other
people can use the code

Question 6

What are advantages of propietary?

Answer 6

• Money can be earned by selling for a fee
• Protects her source code so it can’t be copied/modified/redistributed
• No-one can see the code users cannot edit/change the software so it cannot be copied/resold/shared