Which of the following is a typical requirement of a permissive license like the BSD license?

The original copyright notice must be included in redistributions.

The software cannot be sold for profit.

All source code must be made publicly available.

Derivative works must be distributed under the same license.

A company's legal team is reviewing a third-party library that is licensed under the LGPL. The company plans to dynamically link this library to their proprietary application and distribute the application to customers. What is the most accurate compliance consideration?

The company must release the entire proprietary application under the LGPL.

The company can ignore the LGPL terms because dynamic linking does not create a derivative work.

The company must pay a licensing fee to the library's authors for each copy distributed.

The company must provide the library's source code and allow customers to relink the application with a modified version of the library.

In the open-core business model, what is typically offered as a paid product?

A proprietary license for the same software

Technical support for the open source version

The complete source code of the software

Additional features or enterprise enhancements

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16application · easy
A company provides a hosted version of an open-source application to its customers over the internet. The company does not distribute the software itself. Which open-source business model does this represent?
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17foundation · easy
Which of the following is a typical requirement of a permissive license like the BSD license?
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18expert · hard
A company's legal team is reviewing a third-party library that is licensed under the LGPL. The company plans to dynamically link this library to their proprietary application and distribute the application to customers. What is the most accurate compliance consideration?
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19application · easy
A company wants to maximize adoption of its new software library by allowing anyone to use it, even in proprietary projects, with minimal restrictions. Which license should the company choose?
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20foundation · easy
In the open-core business model, what is typically offered as a paid product?
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Questions 16–20

A company provides a hosted version of an open-source application to its customers over the internet. The company does not distribute the software itself. Which open-source business model does this represent?

Which of the following is a typical requirement of a permissive license like the BSD license?

A company's legal team is reviewing a third-party library that is licensed under the LGPL. The company plans to dynamically link this library to their proprietary application and distribute the application to customers. What is the most accurate compliance consideration?

A company wants to maximize adoption of its new software library by allowing anyone to use it, even in proprietary projects, with minimal restrictions. Which license should the company choose?

In the open-core business model, what is typically offered as a paid product?

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