OpenBoard

OpenBoard is a free and open-source interactive whiteboard software compatible with any projector and pointing device.

OpenBoard
Initial release2013 (2013)
Stable release
1.6.4 / October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
Written inC++, Qt
Operating systemLinux, Windows, OS X
Platformx86, x86-64
Size160MB
Available in14 languages
List of languages
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish
TypeInteractive whiteboard software
LicenseGPL-3.0-only[lower-alpha 1][1]
Websiteopenboard.ch
This article is about the open-source whiteboard software. For the open-source Android keyboard, see OpenBoard (keyboard).

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

OpenBoard 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
  1. GPL-3.0-only with a linking exception for OpenSSL

References
  1. "COPYRIGHT". Github. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  2. "first try on linux after changing name · OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard@907c084". GitHub. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  3. "OpenBoard, logiciel libre d'enseignement numérique interactif - Boite à Outils SEM". Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  4. "OpenEducationFoundation/OpenBoard". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  5. "Claudio Valerio". GitHub. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  6. "History". Open-Sankoré. Archived from the original on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
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