About OIN

OIN believes greater diversity of thought, perspective and talent drives higher levels of innovation. We promote the idea that Open Source technologies provide a new business model which distills collective and global intelligence.

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Our Community

With 3,300+ members from more than 100 countries, we’re the largest patent non-aggression community in history. Together, we support freedom of action in Linux as a key element of Open Source & help members reduce patent risks.

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Our License Agreement

All members sign the same agreement to cross-license their Linux System patents royalty free in a community which owns 2.6+ million patents & applications. Members also gain access to OIN’s portfolio of 1,300 IP assets.

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What Our Members are Saying

The Mercari Group’s systems are supported by a variety of open source software. As a beneficiary of the enormous contributions made by the open source software community, we believe making a contribution to innovation in the world by publishing technology accumulated through the development and operation of our services, such as Mercari and Merpay, as open source is the right choice. Hence, the Mercari Group endorses the activities of OIN which protects innovations with open source from patent risks.
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