Open Source


What? Why? How?



SASTRA | Dec 29, 2013

What is Open Source?

 
fɪˈnɒmɪnən/
noun

a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.


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

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