Note about Q1 in Knowledge Check for OS101 M4 L1 #646
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Dear OS101 developers,
I took the curriculum earlier this year, and learned a lot. Thank you very much for this resource.
As I was re-reading my notes, I remembered that the answer to Question 1 of the Knowledge Check for M4 L1 (Introduction to Open Code) had not seemed obvious to me. Here, I respectfully suggest a re-wording of the question.
The question is to decide if the following statement is True or False:
Software is referred to as open source when it is publicly accessible; anyone can see, modify, and distribute the code as they see fit.
My issue comes from the end of this statement "as they see fit", that I understand as a non-restrictive, absolute right to modify and distribute the code. However, as covered in the course, the license is a key element of open source software, and some licenses do restrict how software can be modified or distributed (or at least how modified versions of the code can be distributed)?
To me, the answer would thus have been more correct if the statement had read:
Software is referred to as open source when it is publicly accessible; anyone can see, modify, and distribute the code as they see fit within the constraints set by the software license. (or any better formulation).
Or course, the above might just stems from my lack of expertise with OSS and licenses in general. In which case, I'll have to take this module again...
If I remember correctly, the same question is in the final quiz for module 4, and I got it wrong there, again because of the license.
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