Title: Quiz A - Software Licensing
Course: CIS 121: Linux/UNIX I: Fundamentals ~ For IGNITE Review

Q: Explain the difference between copyright, trademarks and patents.
Feedback: Copyright protects a single creative work, which could be the expression of an idea. A patent protects the idea itself. Trademarks are names and logos that are used as special identifiers for a product, company, organization, etc.

Q: What is the principal difference between the Free Software Foundation philosophy and the Open Source Initiative Philosophy. Do not list the similarities, just what is different.
Feedback: The GPL of the FSF requires that derived works also be released under the GPL. The OSI license does not have that requirement.

Q: What is the GPL?
Feedback: The General Public License was developed by the Free Software Foundation to promote the distribution of software that gives the user the freedom to use it for any purpose, access to the source code, modification rights and redistribution rights.

Q: What is misleading about the term "free software" as used by the Free Software Foundation?
Feedback: It isn't necessarily without cost.

Q: What are the defining characteristics of Open Source Software?
Feedback: Free distribution Available source code Permission to derived works Source code integrity No discrimination Automatic license distribution

Q: What are four of the major types of Open Source licenses?
Feedback: GNU GPL LGPL BSD MIT Apache Artistic NPL MPL

Q: List for approaches that are used in Open Source Business Models.
Feedback: Services and support Dual Licensing Multiple products Open source drivers Bounties Donations