D-Link ya shiga Open Invention Network (OIN), ƙungiyar da aka sadaukar don kare yanayin yanayin Linux daga da'awar haƙƙin mallaka. An lura cewa sama da kashi 70% na hanyoyin sadarwar D-Link da samfuran sadarwa an fara aiwatar da su ta amfani da software na buɗe ido. Kamfanin ya ci gaba da bayar da shawarwari don buɗaɗɗen software da 'yancin mallaka, kuma ya himmatu wajen ba da gudummawa ga al'ummar OIN don haɓaka ƙima.
Membobin OIN sun yarda cewa ba za su faɗi da'awar haƙƙin mallaka ba kuma za su ba da izinin yin amfani da fasahar haƙƙin mallaka a cikin ayyukan da suka danganci yanayin yanayin Linux. Membobin OIN sun haɗa da kamfanoni sama da 3300, al'ummomi, da ƙungiyoyi waɗanda suka rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar ba da lasisin raba haƙƙin mallaka. Daga cikin manyan mahalarta taron na OIN, da tabbatar da samar da patent pool kare Linux, akwai kamfanoni irin su Google, IBM, NEC, Toyota, Renault, SUSE, Philips, Red Hat, Alibaba, HP, AT&T, Juniper, Facebook, Cisco, Casio, Huawei, Fujitsu , Sony da Microsoft.
Kamfanonin da suka rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar sun sami damar yin amfani da haƙƙin mallaka da OIN ke riƙe don musanya wani takalifi na rashin bin da'awar doka don amfani da fasahohin da aka yi amfani da su a cikin yanayin yanayin Linux. Ciki har da wani ɓangare na shiga OIN, Microsoft ya tura wa mahalarta OIN haƙƙin yin amfani da haƙƙin mallaka fiye da 60 na haƙƙin mallaka, tare da yin alƙawarin ba zai yi amfani da su a kan Linux da software na buɗe ido ba.
Yarjejeniyar tsakanin mahalarta OIN ta shafi sassan rarrabawa ne kawai da ke ƙarƙashin ma'anar tsarin Linux ("System Linux"). Jerin a halin yanzu ya haɗa da fakiti 3393, gami da Linux kernel, dandamali na 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, da sauransu. Baya ga wajibcin rashin cin zarafi, don ƙarin kariya, OIN ta ƙirƙiri wani tafkin haƙƙin mallaka, wanda ya haɗa da haƙƙin mallaka masu alaƙa da Linux waɗanda mahalarta suka saya ko suka bayar.
Tafkin haƙƙin mallaka na OIN ya ƙunshi fiye da haƙƙin mallaka 1300. Daga cikin wasu abubuwa, OIN yana riƙe da rukunin haƙƙin mallaka waɗanda ke ƙunshe da wasu abubuwan da aka ambata na fasaha na farko don ƙirƙirar abun ciki na gidan yanar gizo mai ƙarfi, waɗanda ke nuni da fitowar irin waɗannan tsarin kamar ASP daga Microsoft, JSP daga Sun/Oracle da PHP. Wata muhimmiyar gudummawar ita ce siyan a cikin 2009 na haƙƙin mallaka na Microsoft guda 22 waɗanda a baya aka siyar da su ga ƙungiyar AST a matsayin haƙƙin mallaka wanda ke rufe samfuran “buɗaɗɗen tushe”. Duk mahalarta OIN suna da damar yin amfani da waɗannan haƙƙin mallaka kyauta. An tabbatar da ingancin yarjejeniyar OIN ta hanyar yanke shawara na Ma'aikatar Shari'a ta Amurka, wanda ya buƙaci a yi la'akari da bukatun OIN a cikin sharuɗɗan ciniki don siyar da haƙƙin mallaka na Novell.
source: budenet.ru