Test your knowledge of open source licensing
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 02:37PM For entertainment value only --- no wagering!
1. Rank these licenses in order of their restrictiveness.
□ LGPL
□ CDDL
□ BSD
□ GPL
□ Affero GPL
□ Artistic
2. Which of these licenses has/have explicit patent grants?
□ GPL version 2
□ GPL version 3
□ Artistic
□ Apache 2.0
3. Which of the following Creative Commons licenses is most similar to GPL?
□ Attribution (“By”)
□ Attribution No-Derivs
□ Attribution Sharealike
4. Which of the following is/are a permissive (i.e. not copyleft or “viral”) license?
□ GPL
□ Artistic
□ Apache 2.0
□ Python Software License
5. Which of the following legal issues is least important to open source?
□ Implied patent licenses
□ Bare licenses
□ Abstraction, filtration and comparison test
□ Online contract formation defenses
□ Limits to enforceability of warranty disclaimers
□ Licensee estoppel and the Medimmune case
6. “One of these things is not like the others.” Which one?
7. Fill in the blank
IBM Public License, ______________, Eclipse Public License
8. Which of the following computer languages allows a programmer to elect static linking?
□ PERL
□ Java
□ C++
□ HTML
□ BASIC
9. Which of the following computer languages are compiled languages?
□ PERL
□ Java
□ C++
□ HTML
□ BASIC
10. Fill in the blanks:
GNU Tools: Linux Kernel
__________: Microsoft Visual BASIC Macro
Windows GUI: Windows Operating System
____________: Linux kernel