• 20 Years of the Open Invention Network

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Jun 11 06:40:07 2025
    The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
    its 20th anniversary.

    The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
    that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
    with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
    has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
    license's benefit by including more than 4,500 software components
    and platforms in its Linux System definition, which comprises the
    list of Open Source code and associated functionality in OIN's
    patent cross-license.

    LWN's first look at OIN was this article by
    Pamela Jones in late 2005.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1024718/
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