You've probably seen the meme with the tny project maintained by one person that holds up half the pyramid of all software products and services we use and connect to the world wide web. Curl is a project that is not much bigger than that, but has the same or even bigger impact. Used by billions of people and devices, but maintained by a small community.

In this My Open Source Experience podcast episode Daniel Stenberg talks about the Curl project and community, which he's been maintaining for 30 years now, and counting.

Learn more about:

- What the Curl project is

- The origin story of Curl

- What inspired Daniel to become a lead and maintainer for an open source project

- The license mistake you shouldn't make

- The truth about the size of open source projects' maintainer teams

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