A student has an idea for a software application they would like to distribute under proprietary licensing when they are finished. The student has found some code on a repository they would like to adapt. Which type of license does the found code need to have for this to be allowable without charge?(1 point)

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Responses

freeware
freeware

proprietary
proprietary

copyleft
copyleft

permissive

Answer 1

For the student to adapt the found code and distribute their application under proprietary licensing without charge, the found code needs to have a permissive license.

Permissive licenses allow code to be used, modified, and redistributed, including in proprietary software, without requiring the derivative work to be open-sourced. Examples of permissive licenses include the MIT License and the Apache License.

So, the correct answer is permissive.