Linux Essentials 2.0 & 2.21 | Open Source Software and Licensing Module 4 | Chapter 04 Exam Answers Full 100%

Linux Essentials 2.0 & 2.21 | Open Source Software and Licensing Module 4 | Chapter 04 Exam Answers Full 100%

1. 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

2. 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

3. Open source means:

   (choose two)

   • 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

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

   • Closed source
   • Impaired source
   • Sourceless
   • Open source

5. Open source licenses differ, but generally agree that:

   (choose two)

   • 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

6. Richard Stallman is associated with:

   • The Apache foundation
   • Microsoft
   • The Free Software Foundation
   • BSD Unix
   • The Open Source Initiative

7. 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

8. 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

9. The Free Software Foundation believes that:

   (choose two)

   • 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

10. Which of the following licenses was made by the FSF?

    • GPLv3
    • BSD
    • MIT
    • Creative Commons
    • Apache

11. A permissive free software license:

    (choose two)

    • Requires you share software changes but not binaries
    • Means you can use the software for anything you want
    • Does not allow the software to be locked to certain hardware
    • Places no restrictions on sharing modifications
    • Places the software in the public domain

12. Linux is distributed under which license?

    • GPLv2
    • BSD
    • MIT
    • Linux Foundation
    • GPLv3

13. Who founded the Open Source Initiative?

    (choose two)

    • Eric Raymond
    • Bruce Perens
    • Richard Stallman
    • Linus Torvalds
    • University of California at Berkeley

14. A generic term for Open Source and Free Software is:

    • SLOFF
    • Libre Software
    • OS/FS
    • FLOSS
    • GPL

15. Which are examples of permissive software licenses?

    (choose two)

    • MIT
    • BSD
    • GPLv
    • LGPLv3
    • GPLv3

16. What does it mean when a work is placed in the public domain?

    • The work was done by a government agency
    • The author has relinquished the copyright on the work
    • You must redistribute changes to the software
    • The author has died
    • You may not use the work for commercial purposes

17. Creative Commons licenses allow you to:

    (choose three)

    • Allow or disallow commercial use
    • Specify whether or not people may distribute changes
    • Specify whether or not changes must be shared
    • Receive royalties on the use of the work
    • Get a veto on where the work is used

18. If a podcast is licensed under the CC BY-ND license, you may:

    (choose two)

    • Share it as long as you give credit to the author
    • Post it to your website
    • Sell it as part of a compilation
    • Add ads to it and post it to your website.
    • Use an interview or song from it for your own podcast

19. How can you make money from open source software?

    (choose three)

    • Unlock premium features for people that pay
    • Charge a yearly fee for the right to use the software
    • Sell hardware that’s built to work with the software
    • Take payments for fixing bugs
    • Provide paid consulting services for users

20. The difference between the GPL and LGPL licenses are:

    • LGPL allows you to distribute the software in binary-only form
    • LGPL is shorter than GPL
    • LGPL ensures that all variants of the original GPL program has the same freedom of use as the original
    • LGPL was made by the OSI while GPL was made by the FSF
    • LGPL applies to web services

21. Permissive free software licenses:

    (choose three)

    • Are not approved by the OSI
    • Can allow software to be used inside closed source software
    • Are not approved by the FSF
    • Include the GPLv2 and BSD
    • Don’t have a copyleft provision

22. The Creative Commons version of Public Domain licensing is:

    • NoAttribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
    • Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
    • No Rights Reserved (CC0)
    • Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
    • Attribution (CC BY)

23. Your company makes a hardware firewall that runs a custom Linux kernel. What are your obligations under GPLv2?

    • There are no requirements
    • You must make the source to your kernel available
    • You must make your hardware designs available
    • You must make the source to your custom web interface available
    • You must ensure your custom kernel runs on a regular Intel machine