The Open Invention Network (OIN), dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem and open source software from patent claims, introduced the OIN 2.0 program and expanded List of packages that are covered by the non-patent agreement and the free use of certain patented technologies.
The list of distribution components that fall under the definition of the Linux System (“Linux System”), which is covered by the OIN 2.0 agreement, has been expanded by 561 packages. New packages included in the list include AOSP 15, Eclipse Che, Eclipse GlassFish, Eclipse Theia, Grafana, Kea DHCP, Percona Server, Zabbix, bird, borgbackup, distrobox, erlangm, libxml++, ntfs-3g, openWRT, opendaylight, openharmony, opentofu, pcre3, PowerDNS, pure-ftpd, sudo-rs, transmission, vtun, wireguard-tools, xz-utils, as well as many libraries in Go, Python and Rust.
The Linux system definition now covers 5181 packages for OIN 2.0 and 4530 packages for the previous initiative OIN. Significant open source projects covered by a patent agreement include the Linux kernel, the AGL (Automotive Grade Linux) platform, Android, KVM, Git, nginx, CMake, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, QEMU, Kubernetes, KVM, Lua, LLVM, OpenJDK, WebKit, KDE, GNOME, QEMU, Firefox, LibreOffice, OpenStack, Qt, systemd, X.Org, Wayland, PostgreSQL and MySQL.
The OIN 2.0 program will feature a move to a tiered contribution model that will co-fund the mission of protecting the Open Source ecosystem from patent risk. The main idea of OIN 2.0 is to provide companies that benefit from open source software with the opportunity to participate in the common cause of patent protection. The contribution is based on company revenue – large enterprises will contribute more than medium