What is Open Source?

A phenomenon

Writing code is the easiest job

Sharing it is harder

Sharing it properly is even harder

Open Source is a set of principles

Agnostic to technology

Agnostic to people involved

Sharing is the key

Allowing re-adaptation and reuse

Transparency

A brief history

Founding of the GNU project (1984)

Founding of the FSF (1985)

Linux kernel launched (1991)

Hard line of the FSF

Founding of the OSI (1998)

Free Software vs Open Source

Licenses

Why are they important?

Types of popular open source license

MIT, BSD, GNU GPL, Apache, MPL

Why go Open Source?

Why are you not in open source already?

Pain points?

Closed education system