Q: A guideline for the OSS licenses other than the GPL.
Solution: OSS is the open source software. In 1997, OSI or the open source initiative was founded and it developed the OSD (Open Source Definition). OSD is a guideline for OSS licenses other than the GPL.
Q: GPL of GNU says that every copy of a program governed by GPL license, even if modified, must be subject to GPL again.
Solution: The statement is true. GPL is the general public license. In the 90s, GPL+Internet, many new open source projects started.
Q: Richard Stallman from MIT, established a special license, the ________ license.
Solution: It was called the GNU license. It ensured that software is free and open to anyone. He was from MIT and his main motive was to develop a free alternative to Unix.
Q: In 1969 AT&T laboratories developed ______ which supported and worked on different hardware platforms.
Solution: Linux was found in that year. It worked well on different hardware platforms. Commercial users had to pay a license fee.
Q: OSS stands for ___________
Solution: OSS stands for open source software. OSS allows any user to download, view, modify and redistribute the software. Also, the user can fix bugs according to needs.
Q: Public domain software is usually __________
Solution: The public domain software is generally community supported. It is community supported as an author does not support users directly.
Q: Set of a program which consists of full documentation.
Solution: It is called a software package. Software is nothing but a collection of programs. A software package can solve a specific problem or perform a specific type of job.
Q: Interpreter is used as a translator for?
Solution: It is generally used to make the code into a machine understandable format. Interpreter is used with the high level languages similarly. Assembler is used in case of low level languages.
Q: What do you call a specific instruction designed to do a task?
Solution: A program is a set of instructions. A command is given to do a specific job. A program in execution is called a process.
Q: They normally interact with the system via user interface provided by the application software.
Solution: Users interact with the system via user interface that is given by the application software. Application software is a set of instructions designed to serve a particular purpose.
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