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by 3np 2066 days ago
Taking a look at the sample questions provided (questions and correct answers):

Q4: Which licensing statement best describes a project to be truly open source?

* it is recommended to choose a license because without it, the default copyright laws apply

(technically correct but yeah)

Q5: Which statements are true about GitHub Marketplace?

* a digital catalog with hundreds of software listings from independent software vendors

* a place where apps and actions can be found to improve your workflow

(marketing/ad)

3 comments

Github recommended that you choose a license even before MS acquisition
Sure, but it's a poor choice for the one statement that "best describes a project to be truly open source"
Yeah that's weird, it's incomplete basically. As if the question were 'what's potentially more open source, licence or no licence?'
It didn't had "the BEST license"
Q4 seems to be ensuring that people are informed that source visible and open source are not the same thing. If you don't understand copyright, it's easy to think that you can just publish code without a license and have it be usable by everyone for any reason.
> it is recommended to choose a license because without it, the default copyright laws apply

I think this is something even the FSF will tell people.