20 Years of the Open Invention Network

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.