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OpenBoard is a free and open-source interactive whiteboard software compatible with any projector and pointing device.
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 Screenshot of OpenBoard 1.3.1 | |
| Initial release | 2013 |
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| Stable release | 1.7.0
/ December 9, 2023 |
| Written in | C++, Qt |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows, OS X |
| Platform | x86, x86-64 |
| Size | 160MB |
| Available in | 14 languages |
List of languages Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish | |
| Type | Interactive whiteboard software |
| License | GPL-3.0-only[a][1] |
| Website | openboard |
It was originally forked from Open-Sankoré in 2013[2] with the intention to focus on simplicity and stability. The license was upgraded from LGPL-2.0-only to GPL-3.0-only. Since version 1.3 it is using the more recent QT 5 framework instead of QT version 4.
History
editOpenBoard is [3] a fork of the project based on Open-Sankoré 2,0.[4] Open-Sankoré itself is based on the Uniboard software originally developed at the University of Lausanne (UL), Switzerland. The software started to be developed in 2003 and was first used by the instructors of the UL in October 2003. The project was later spun off to a local startup company, Mnemis SA. It was subsequently sold to the French Public Interest Grouping for Digital Education in Africa (GIP ENA) which bought the intellectual property of the software in order to make it an open source project[5] under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL-2.0-only).[6]
Notes
edit- ^ GPL-3.0-only with a linking exception for OpenSSL
References
edit- ^ "COPYRIGHT". Github. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "first try on linux after changing name · OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard@907c084". GitHub. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "OpenBoard, logiciel libre d'enseignement numérique interactif - Boite à Outils SEM". Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "OpenEducationFoundation/OpenBoard". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
- ^ "Claudio Valerio". GitHub. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "History". Open-Sankoré. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
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