20 Years of the Open Invention Network

The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebratingits 20th anniversary.

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

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