D-Link has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the ecosystem. Linux from patent claims. It is noted that over 70% of D-Link's networking and communications products were originally implemented using open source software. The company continues to advocate for open source software and the absence of patent aggression and intends to contribute to the OIN community to advance innovation.
OIN members commit not to assert patent claims and to license patented technologies for use in ecosystem-related projects free of charge. LinuxOIN members include over 3300 companies, communities, and organizations that have signed a patent-sharing license agreement. Among the key OIN participants, which ensure the formation of a protective Linux patent pool, companies such as Google, IBM, NEC, Toyota, Renault, SUSE, Philips, Red Hat, Alibaba, HP, AT&T, Juniper, Facebook, Cisco, Casio, Huawei, Fujitsu, Sony and Microsoft.
Companies that sign the agreement receive access to patents held by OIN in exchange for a commitment not to sue for the use of technologies used in the ecosystem. LinuxIn particular, as part of its accession to the OIN, Microsoft transferred the right to use more than 60 of its patents to OIN participants, undertaking not to use them against Linux and open source software.
The OIN Agreement applies only to components of distributions that fall under the definition of a system Linux ("Linux System"). The list currently includes 3393 packages, including the kernel. Linux, platform Android, KVM, Git, nginx, Apache Hadoop, CMake, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Lua, LLVM, OpenJDK, WebKit, KDE, GNOME, QEMU, Firefox, LibreOffice, Qt, systemd, X.Org, Wayland, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. In addition to non-aggression obligations, a patent pool has been created for additional protection within the OIN, which includes patents that are purchased or donated by participants related to Linux.
The OIN patent pool includes over 1300 patents. Including in the hands of OIN is a group of patents, which featured some of the first mentions of technologies for creating dynamic web content, which anticipated the emergence of such systems as Microsoft's ASP, Sun/Oracle's JSP and PHP. Another significant contribution is the acquisition in 2009 of 22 Microsoft patents that had previously been sold to the AST consortium as patents affecting "open source" products. All OIN members have the opportunity to use these patents free of charge. The effectiveness of the OIN agreement was confirmed by the decision of the US Department of Justice, which demanded that the interests of OIN be taken into account in the terms of the deal to sell the Novell patents.
Source: opennet.ru
