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The adoption of open source software is on the rise across all industries, but what 'open source' means (even if they use the right licenses) is getting muddier and muddier. It can be hard to know for sure whether your efforts will benefit a corporation or a community. In this talk you will get a crash course on how open source licensing works, the differences and similarities in open source projects depending on who's funding it, the different ways you can engage with the types of projects, and how to decide what type of project you want to work on.