Kieran Kunhya
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we've seen that so many times, right?
GCC and EGCC in the past.
We have seen, for example, all the web browsers, right?
They started as KHML, which becomes WebKit, and then which becomes Blink, right?
So open source license is like the core of the community.
And people are coming from all around the world, very different type of religion, political borders.
They work in the same way on a project to solve a specific problem.
And the specific problem we're working on is to make multimedia easy for everyone.
There are many licenses for many different things.
What people don't understand that public domain is something that doesn't exist worldwide, right?
So it's all the open source licensing use the copyright law, right?
The international copyright law in order to give
writes on how you use the software or how you modify.
It's de facto a copyright license contract that you give to the end user or to the developer.
And so you have like the first one, which are basically very permissive, MIT, BSD.
You give the code and basically you do whatever you want, right?
You take it, you modify, you do what you want.
And this is popular for JavaScript and the type of BSD operating system.
And then there is the other part of license which are copy left,
where you need to give back to the community your modifications and with different string attached.