Bruce Perens had composed the original draft of the DFSG, and it was edited, refined, and approved as formal policy by the Debian developer community in 1997.
Bruce Perens had composed the original draft of the DFSG, and it was edited, refined, and approved as formal policy by the Debian developer community in 1997.
The Open Source Definition was then created during the launch of the OSI in Feb. 1998 by revising the DFSG and removing Debian-specific references.
One of the major issues with open source at that time was version controlling.
Before using any version controlling tool Linux team was making changes to code by sending and recieving emails as patch.
HISTORY OF OPEN SOURCE
After the creation of Bitkeeper in 2000 Linux team used it within project as version controlling tool.
BitKeeper in 2005 decided not to give free software which makes "Linus Torvalds" (Founder of Linux) sad and angry.
"Linus" went on vacation and created a free versioning tool in April 2005, known "Git".
Linux kernel team started using git for version controlling instead of paid bitkeeper.
GitHub is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git.
GitHub was founded in 2008 and now it is used as a portfolio for developers.
It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features.
Note: Linux Kernal project is one of biggest open source projects in human history, and they don't accept PR's on GitHub but here is archive version: https://github.com/torvalds/linux