Subj : 20 Years of the Open Invention Network To : All From : LWN.net Date : Tue Jun 10 2025 14:30:09 20 Years of the Open Invention Network Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:16:53 +0000 Description: 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. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://lwn.net/Articles/1024718/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet UK HUB @ hub.uk.erb.pw (1337:1/100) .