Kieran Kunhya

And then it's exactly like the Linux kernel, right?

The Linux kernel has probably 10,000 people contributing everywhere.

And they get together, mostly online, right?

So they virtually get together to create the best tool for something.

And on FFmpeg and VLC, it's just like,

Well, this codec doesn't work.

So I'm going to work on the codec and I'm going to add the support for this file inside FFmpeg so it will be beneficial to everyone.

Because again, we work for the greater good.

We work for everyone.

And that is what open source is.

People do, right?

There was a lot of problems with mostly cloud providers who are basically running some open-source tools in the cloud and just give you the API to access to that.

And there was a lot of...

databases like Mongo or Elastic who change their license in order to avoid those type of scenarios.

The license is a social contract in terms of Rousseau, de facto, of the community.

The community does not agree on much besides the license.

People go around, discuss around licensing.

because of the license.

And that also allows those license forks, right?

Sometimes the community splits, but it's possible because of the license then to merge back.