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Open Source Concepts Type A: Very Short Answer Questions

The document discusses open source concepts including definitions of open source software, free software, and related terms. It provides short answers defining open source software, comparing and contrasting free and open source software, OSS and FLOSS, proprietary and free software, freeware and shareware, and freeware and free software.

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Open Source Concepts Type A: Very Short Answer Questions

The document discusses open source concepts including definitions of open source software, free software, and related terms. It provides short answers defining open source software, comparing and contrasting free and open source software, OSS and FLOSS, proprietary and free software, freeware and shareware, and freeware and free software.

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Open Source Concepts

Type A: Very Short Answer Questions


1 What is OSS?
Ans:  Open Source Software is a software available with source code and free to change/edit/redistribute and
imposed no further restrictions on product or its usage.
2 Expand the terms: OSI, FLOSS, FSF, GNU, GPL W3C, and OSS.
Ans: 1. OSI –Open source Initiative
2. FLOSS –Free Libre and Open Source Software
3. FSF –Free Software Foundation
4. GNU –GNU is Not Unix
5. GPL –General Public License
6. W3C –World Wide WEB Consortium
7. OSS –Open Source Software
3 Define Freeware and Shareware.
Ans: 1. Freeware: Freeware is the software available free of cost and allows copying and further distribution but
does not allows modification as its source code is not available.
2. Shareware: Shareware is as software which is available for redistribution for stipulated time but after
some time some license free is required to be paid.
Type B: Short Answer Questions
1 What are open source based software?
Ans: Open source software (OSS) is computer software that is available in source code from for which the source
code and certain other rights normally reserved for copyright holders are provided under a software license
that permits users to study, change, and improve the software.
2 Compare and Contrast
(i) Free software and Open source software
(ii) OSS and FLOSS
(iii) Proprietary software and Free software
(iv) Freeware and Shareware
(v) Freeware and Free software
Ans: (i) Free software and Open software
compare contrast
 Have the source code available, to see  Free software allows you to modify and
how it works and change it. release the change to the program.
 Whereas, Open source software restricts you
to release source code commercially, or
release modified copies of the binaries/source.
(ii) OSS and FLOSS
 Both the type s of software are freely  Freeware Software that are available but
available. cannot be modified.
 Whereas, free software can be modified due
to availability of source code

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