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General introduction to Open Source

Bart Van Loon
Bart Van Loon

Bart Van Loon gives a presentation on open source software over 45 minutes. He introduces himself and his company Zeropoint.IT, which focuses on open source software and outsourcing. He then discusses what open source is, its history and background, why one would use it, how to use it, relevant legal frameworks including open source licenses, examples of open source around Europe and Belgium, and specifically in Schoten where the local government has adopted open source software.

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Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! What is Open Source? Bart Van Loon 2nd April 2009
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! The next 45 minutes. . . Open Source 1 What is it? Background and History Why use it? How to use it? Legal Framework 2 Open Source Licenses Similarities with commercial licenses Di鍖erences with commercial licenses Open Source around you 3 Europe Belgium Schoten
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Who am I? Bart Van Loon 1989 1999: lived in Schoten 2003: introduced to Open Source 2005: studied Computer Science, Mathematics, Arti鍖cial Intelligence 2006: started 鍖rst company (Picture by Pitslamp.be)
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Zeropoint.IT facilitates software development outsourcing to Pakistan strong focus on Open Source software and philosophy international company, running for 99% on Open Source infrastructure
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! What is it? Open Source Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its a. . . Kind of Technology? Movement? Software Distribution Model? Business Model? Software License Property?
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! What is it? Open Source Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its a. . . Kind of Technology? Movement? Software Distribution Model? Business Model? Software License Property!
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Some History Once upon a time. . . 1984: GNU project of Richard Stallman at MIT 1985: start of Free Software Foundation 1991: First release of Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds 1993: Development of sourceforge.net 1994: Red Hat is founded (commercial support and distribution of GNU/Linux) 1995: Community starts on Apache Web server 1998: Term Open Source is coined
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software.
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ?
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ? Its about Freedom Libre!
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ? Its about Freedom Libre! or was it Open Source?
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ? Its about Freedom Libre! or was it Open Source? FLOSS: Free/Libre/Open Source Software
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Why use it? Why use Open Source? (from a users perspective) Its all about freedom! Use 1 Study 2 Modify 3 Distribute 4
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! How to use it? How to use Open Source Nobody is telling you what to do! Hire a professional! You have the freedom to choose the best one. . . and to change your mind afterwards.
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Open Source Licenses Open Source Licenses The ten commandments Open source doesnt just mean access to the source code. Free Redistribution 1 Source Code 2 Derived Works 3 Integrity of The Authors Source Code 4 No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups 5 No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor 6 Distribution of License 7 License Must Not Be Speci鍖c to a Product 8 License Must Not Restrict Other Software 9 License Must Be Technology-Neutral 10
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Open Source Licenses Open Source Licenses Two big families BSD GPL four freedoms four freedoms obligation to ensure gives you the right to that these four things decide what rights to hold true for the next bundle with the person you give it to software viral freeer
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Similarities with commercial licenses Whats the same? A lot! Respect for ownership Its all about granting and retaining rights Governed by the same laws! Sometimes they just dont 鍖t
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Di鍖erences with commercial licenses Whats the same? A lot! Di鍖erent goal: copyleft Developers invented it No acceptance procedures
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Europe Open Source in Europe Its all over the place! Big governments try The European Commission is placing open standards and open-source software at the centre of its e鍖orts to promote interoperable e-government services with a new working paper introduced this month. ZDNet Small governments do Nearly half of European local government bodies are using open source software while nearly a third dont know that they are using open source at all. The Register
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Belgium Open Source in Belgium From the federal government to a huge conference Open Standards for the future From September 2008 onwards, all document exchanges within the services of the Belgian Government will have to be in an open, standard format. Only ODF is accepted as such a standard. FOSDEM 5000+ geeks, 200+ lectures, 2 days, 0 e Profoss Profoss wants to give a good idea of the whole ICT market and let you compare traditional solutions to open source solutions. We take a pragmatic look at the market, and you get the information you need!
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Schoten Open Source in Schoten Jan Verlinden is the man! Didnt go unnoticed Schoten adopted open source software within its server IT environment and replaced numerous proprietary applications. According to the municipality, the migration was a big success. Due to the new server environment, Schoten could not only reduce related IT expenses but also increase productivity and operation ability. OSOR An example for governments around the world. Wie smaalt over het kwakkelende opensource-project van de Duitse stad M即nchen kan u voor een klinkend tegenvoorbeeld dichter bij huis terecht, in Schoten met name Zea Partners And were not the only ones proud of it.
Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Contact me Why not? Bart Van Loon bart@zeropoint.it (+32) 472/94.14.34 blog: http://bbbart.eu/blog twitter: @b b b a r t

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General introduction to Open Source

  • 1. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! What is Open Source? Bart Van Loon 2nd April 2009
  • 2. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! The next 45 minutes. . . Open Source 1 What is it? Background and History Why use it? How to use it? Legal Framework 2 Open Source Licenses Similarities with commercial licenses Di鍖erences with commercial licenses Open Source around you 3 Europe Belgium Schoten
  • 3. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Who am I? Bart Van Loon 1989 1999: lived in Schoten 2003: introduced to Open Source 2005: studied Computer Science, Mathematics, Arti鍖cial Intelligence 2006: started 鍖rst company (Picture by Pitslamp.be)
  • 4. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Zeropoint.IT facilitates software development outsourcing to Pakistan strong focus on Open Source software and philosophy international company, running for 99% on Open Source infrastructure
  • 5. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! What is it? Open Source Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its a. . . Kind of Technology? Movement? Software Distribution Model? Business Model? Software License Property?
  • 6. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! What is it? Open Source Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, its a. . . Kind of Technology? Movement? Software Distribution Model? Business Model? Software License Property!
  • 7. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Some History Once upon a time. . . 1984: GNU project of Richard Stallman at MIT 1985: start of Free Software Foundation 1991: First release of Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds 1993: Development of sourceforge.net 1994: Red Hat is founded (commercial support and distribution of GNU/Linux) 1995: Community starts on Apache Web server 1998: Term Open Source is coined
  • 8. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software.
  • 9. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ?
  • 10. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ? Its about Freedom Libre!
  • 11. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ? Its about Freedom Libre! or was it Open Source?
  • 12. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Background and History Background FLOSS? Confusion about the name: Free Software. Free <vs> Free ? Its about Freedom Libre! or was it Open Source? FLOSS: Free/Libre/Open Source Software
  • 13. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Why use it? Why use Open Source? (from a users perspective) Its all about freedom! Use 1 Study 2 Modify 3 Distribute 4
  • 14. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! How to use it? How to use Open Source Nobody is telling you what to do! Hire a professional! You have the freedom to choose the best one. . . and to change your mind afterwards.
  • 15. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Open Source Licenses Open Source Licenses The ten commandments Open source doesnt just mean access to the source code. Free Redistribution 1 Source Code 2 Derived Works 3 Integrity of The Authors Source Code 4 No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups 5 No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor 6 Distribution of License 7 License Must Not Be Speci鍖c to a Product 8 License Must Not Restrict Other Software 9 License Must Be Technology-Neutral 10
  • 16. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Open Source Licenses Open Source Licenses Two big families BSD GPL four freedoms four freedoms obligation to ensure gives you the right to that these four things decide what rights to hold true for the next bundle with the person you give it to software viral freeer
  • 17. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Similarities with commercial licenses Whats the same? A lot! Respect for ownership Its all about granting and retaining rights Governed by the same laws! Sometimes they just dont 鍖t
  • 18. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Di鍖erences with commercial licenses Whats the same? A lot! Di鍖erent goal: copyleft Developers invented it No acceptance procedures
  • 19. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Europe Open Source in Europe Its all over the place! Big governments try The European Commission is placing open standards and open-source software at the centre of its e鍖orts to promote interoperable e-government services with a new working paper introduced this month. ZDNet Small governments do Nearly half of European local government bodies are using open source software while nearly a third dont know that they are using open source at all. The Register
  • 20. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Belgium Open Source in Belgium From the federal government to a huge conference Open Standards for the future From September 2008 onwards, all document exchanges within the services of the Belgian Government will have to be in an open, standard format. Only ODF is accepted as such a standard. FOSDEM 5000+ geeks, 200+ lectures, 2 days, 0 e Profoss Profoss wants to give a good idea of the whole ICT market and let you compare traditional solutions to open source solutions. We take a pragmatic look at the market, and you get the information you need!
  • 21. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Schoten Open Source in Schoten Jan Verlinden is the man! Didnt go unnoticed Schoten adopted open source software within its server IT environment and replaced numerous proprietary applications. According to the municipality, the migration was a big success. Due to the new server environment, Schoten could not only reduce related IT expenses but also increase productivity and operation ability. OSOR An example for governments around the world. Wie smaalt over het kwakkelende opensource-project van de Duitse stad M即nchen kan u voor een klinkend tegenvoorbeeld dichter bij huis terecht, in Schoten met name Zea Partners And were not the only ones proud of it.
  • 22. Outline Who am I? Open Source Legal Framework Open Source around you Please contact me! Contact me Why not? Bart Van Loon bart@zeropoint.it (+32) 472/94.14.34 blog: http://bbbart.eu/blog twitter: @b b b a r t