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Episode 2: Introduction to Open Source and Licensing

Open Source Software is key to many of innovations in technology over the last few decades. It is also a fundamental requirement to build communities around software development. In this episode I give a brief introduction and an overview of Open Source and the licenses behind it.

Please excuse the hay fever induced muffle of my voice during this recording 🙂

Links referred to in the podcast:

Open Source Initiative (OSI): https://opensource.org/
Open Source Definition (OSD): https://opensource.org/osd
tl;dr Legal: https://tldrlegal.com
Google Summer of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Intro music for this Podcast is “Sunshine version 2” by Kevin MacLeod

My Open Source projects that still live on

I have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple C API to Amazon’s S3. This was created because we needed a library which could link to GPLv2 software and Amazon’s own library is Apache 2.0 licensed which is incompatible.

It is not a perfect code base because I had a very short amount of time to get the first release out but it was a very fun project to work on. It led me to take a quick look this morning at a couple of other things I have created in the past to see where they are at today.