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{{short description|Non-profit technology consortium to develop the Linux operating system}}
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[[File:LinuxCon Europe Jim Zemlin 02.jpg|thumb|Jim Zemlin at the opening of the [[LinuxCon]] Europe 2014]]
[[File:LinuxconNorthAmerica2016.jpg|thumb|Linus Torvalds at [[LinuxCon]] North America 2016]]


The '''Linux Foundation''' ('''LF''') is a [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit]] technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between [[Open Source Development Labs]] and the [[Free Standards Group]] to standardize [[Linux]], support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. It also hosts and promotes the collaborative development of [[Open-source software|open source]] software projects.<ref>{{cite web |title=About The Linux Foundation |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/ |publisher=The Linux Foundation |accessdate=30 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Linux Foundation Projects |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/ |publisher=The Linux Foundation |accessdate=30 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jim Zemlin Named Executive Director of New Linux Foundation |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202162101/http://www.linux-foundation.org/wordpress/?p=287 |publisher=The Linux Foundation}}</ref>
The '''Linux Foundation''' ('''LF''') is a [[non-profit organization]] established in 2000 to support Linux development and [[open-source software]] projects.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Tim |title=Linux Foundation spends 20% more in 2021, adds LFX platform |url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/13/linux_foundation_spends_20_more/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=theregister.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803081735/https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/13/linux_foundation_spends_20_more/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Background ==
It began in 2000 under the [[Open Source Development Labs]] (OSDL) and became the organization it is today when OSDL merged with the [[Free Standards Group]] (FSG). The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator [[Linus Torvalds]] and lead maintainer [[Greg Kroah-Hartman]] and is supported by members such as [[AT&T]], [[Cisco]], [[Fujitsu]], [[Hitachi]], [[Huawei]], [[IBM]], [[Intel]], [[Microsoft]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/microsoft-yes-microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/|title=Microsoft—yes, Microsoft—joins the Linux Foundation|publisher=|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref> [[NEC]], [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]], [[Qualcomm]], [[Samsung]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Latif |first=Lawrence |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2182438/samsung-takes-seat-intel-ibm-linux-foundation |title=Samsung takes a seat with Intel and IBM at the Linux Foundation |publisher=The Inquirer |date=2012-06-06 |accessdate=2013-11-13}}</ref> and [[VMware]], as well as developers from around the world.
The Linux Foundation was formed as a merger with [[Free Standards Group]] in 2007. It was initially founded to standardize and promote the open source operating system kernel [[Linux]] as [[Open Source Development Labs]] in 2000. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Martens |first=China |date=2007-01-22 |title=OSDL, Free Standards Group to merge |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2817625/osdl--free-standards-group-to-merge.html |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=Computerworld |language=en |archive-date=2023-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803013612/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2817625/osdl--free-standards-group-to-merge.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The foundation has since evolved beyond Linux to become a "foundation of foundations" that hosts a variety of projects spanning topics such as [[cloud computing|cloud]], networking, blockchain, and hardware.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Linux Foundation: It's not just the Linux operating system - Linux Foundation |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/the-linux-foundation-its-not-just-the-linux-operating-system |access-date=2023-08-03 |website=linuxfoundation.org |language=en |archive-date=2023-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803035340/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/the-linux-foundation-its-not-just-the-linux-operating-system |url-status=live }}</ref> The foundation also hosts annual educational events among the Linux community, including the [[Linux Kernel Developers Summit]] and the [[Open Source Summit]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-03|title=The Linux Foundation became a force in enterprise tech. Is that a problem?|url=https://www.protocol.com/linux-foundation-open-source-enterprise|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Protocol|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019135714/https://www.protocol.com/linux-foundation-open-source-enterprise|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linux-goes-to-hollywood-for-inaugural-open-source-summit |title=Linux Goes to Hollywood for Inaugural Open Source Summit |work=eWEEK |access-date=2017-09-25 |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Projects ==
In recent years, the Linux Foundation has expanded its services through events, training and certification, and open source projects. Projects hosted at the Linux Foundation include [[ONAP|Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP)]], [[Hyperledger]], Cloud Native Computing Foundation, [[Cloud Foundry|Cloud Foundry Foundation]], Xen Project, and many others.
{{As of|2015|9}}, the total economic value of development costs of Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects was estimated at $5 billion.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSnMKWsd3zWa+1c2+MKW20150930 |title=The Linux Foundation Releases First-Ever Value of Collaborative Development Report |date=2015-09-30 |work=Reuters |access-date=2016-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314160005/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSnMKWsd3zWa+1c2+MKW20150930 |archive-date=2016-03-14}}</ref>


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== History ==
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! Project Name
! Description
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| [[AllJoyn]]
| AllJoyn is an open source software framework that allows compatible devices and applications find each other, communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of product category, platform, brand, and connection type.
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| Automotive Grade Linux
| Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project developing a Linux-based, open platform for the connected car that can serve as the ''de facto'' standard for the industry. Although initially focused on [[In-car entertainment|In-Vehicle Infotainment]] (IVI), the AGL roadmap includes instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics and autonomous driving.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2016/06/11/automotive-grade-linux-releases-unified-code-base-2-0 |title=Automotive Grade Linux Releases Unified Code Base 2.0 |date=2016-06-11 |access-date=22 June 2017 |archive-date=2017-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706002737/https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2016/06/11/automotive-grade-linux-releases-unified-code-base-2-0 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=August 2023}} The goals of AGL are to provide:
* An automotive-focused core Linux operating system stack that meets common and shared requirements of the automotive ecosystem
* A transparent, collaborative and open environment for Automotive OEMs, Tier One suppliers, and their semiconductor and software vendors to create in-vehicle software
* A collective voice for working with other open source projects and developing new open source solutions
* An embedded Linux distribution that enables rapid prototyping for developers new to Linux or teams with prior open source experience<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.autoblog.com/2017/01/06/automotive-grade-linux-connected-car-backbone/ |title=Automotive Grade Linux will be the backbone of your connected car |last=Counts |first=Reese |website=Autoblog |access-date=5 April 2017 |archive-date=17 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417090855/http://www.autoblog.com/2017/01/06/automotive-grade-linux-connected-car-backbone/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Carrier Grade Linux
| Carrier Grade Linux is a set of specifications which detail standards of [[availability]], [[scalability]], manageability, and [[hard real time|service response characteristics]] which must be met in order for [[Linux kernel]]-based operating system to be considered [[carrier grade]].
|-
| [[Cloud Foundry]]
| Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application [[platform as a service]] governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
|-
| [[Cloud Native Computing Foundation]]
| The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was founded in 2015 to help advance [[OS-level virtualization|container technology]] and align the tech industry around its evolution.
|-
| [[Core Infrastructure Initiative]]
| The Core Infrastructure Initiative was announced on 25 April 2014 in the wake of [[Heartbleed]] to fund and support [[free and open-source software]] projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet.
|-
| [[Data Plane Development Kit]]
| The Data Plane Development Kit provides a set of libraries and network interface controller polling-mode drivers to accelerate [[CPU]] architecture-running packet processing workloads.
|-
| [[EdgeX Foundry]]
|EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open-source platform providing a common framework for industrial [[Internet of things|IoT]] [[edge computing]].
|-
| FinOps Foundation
| The FinOps Foundation is dedicated to advancing people who practice the discipline of cloud financial management through best practices, education, and standards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-02-05|title=About the FinOps Foundation|url=https://www.finops.org/about/|access-date=2024-02-05|website=FinOps Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| [[FRRouting]]
| FRRouting is an IP routing protocol suite for Unix and Linux platforms.
|-
| [[Hyperledger]]
| The Hyperledger project is a global, open source effort based around advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies.
|-
| [[IoTivity]]
| The IoTivity is an open source framework created to standardize inter-device connections for the IoT.
|-
| [[JanusGraph]]
| JanusGraph is an open source, [[graph database]] supporting global graph data analytics, reporting, and [[Extract, transform, load|ETL]].
|-
|LF AI & Data
| The LF AI & Data Foundation is a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and data open source projects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LFAI & Data – Linux Foundation Project |url=https://lfaidata.foundation/ |access-date=2023-10-29 |website=lfaidata.foundation |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029201117/https://lfaidata.foundation/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Linux Standard Base]]
| The Linux Standard Base was a project by several [[Linux distributions]] to standardize the software system structure.
|-
| [[ONOS]]
| Open Network Operating System is an open source community with the goal of bringing [[software-defined networking]] to communications service providers in order to make networks more agile for mobile and data center applications.
|-
| [[OpenAPI Specification]]
| OpenAPI Specification is a [[Specification (technical standard)|specification]] for a [[Machine-readable medium|machine-readable]] [[interface definition language]] for describing, producing, consuming and visualizing [[Web API|web services]].
|-
| [[OpenBMC]]
| The [[OpenBMC]] project is a collaborative open-source project whose goal is to produce an open source implementation of the [[Baseboard Management Controller]]s (BMC) Firmware Stack.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/ |title=Open Source Projects |website=The Linux Foundation |language=en-US |access-date=2019-02-21 |archive-date=2020-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916033141/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=GitHub - openbmc/openbmc: OpenBMC Distribution. |date=2019-02-20 |url=https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc |publisher=openbmc |access-date=2019-02-21 |archive-date=2019-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213004653/https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| OpenChain
| The OpenChain Project aims to define effective open source software compliance in software supply chains. A key output is the [[ISO/IEC 5230]] standard.
|-
| [[Open Container Initiative]]
| In 2015, Docker & CoreOS launched the [[Open Container Initiative]] in partnership with The Linux Foundation to create a set of industry standards in the open around container formats and runtime.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/opencontainers |title=Open Container Initiative |website=GitHub |language=en |access-date=2017-05-19 |archive-date=2017-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407072447/https://github.com/opencontainers |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[OpenDaylight Project]]
| OpenDaylight is the leading open SDN platform, which aims to accelerate the adoption of Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization in service provider, enterprise and research networks.
|-
| [[OpenJS Foundation]]
| OpenJS Foundation hosts projects and funds activities to help healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.
|-
| [[Open Source Security Foundation]]
| The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) works towards a collaborative effort to improving the security of the [[open-source software]] ecosystem.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Join the Open Source Security Foundation |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/08/open-source-security-foundation/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=InfoQ |language=en |archive-date=2023-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602052918/https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/08/open-source-security-foundation/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Open Mainframe Project]]
| The Open Mainframe Project is a Collaborative Project to encourage the use of Linux-based operating systems and open source software on mainframe computers.
|-
| OpenPrinting
| OpenPrinting develops IPP-based printing technology for Linux- and Unix-based operating systems.
|-
| [[Open vSwitch]]
| Originally created at Nicira before moving to VMware (and eventually the Linux Foundation), OvS is an open source virtual switch supporting standard management interfaces and protocols.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/open-vswitch-moves-vmware-linux-foundation/2016/08/ |title=Open vSwitch Moves From VMware to Linux Foundation |date=2016-08-09 |work=SDxCentral |access-date=2017-05-19 |language=en-US |archive-date=2018-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120095642/https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/open-vswitch-moves-vmware-linux-foundation/2016/08/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[ONAP]]
| The Open Network Automation Platform is the result of OPEN-O and Open ECOMP projects merging in April 2017. The platform allows end users to design, manage, and automate services and virtual functions.
|-
| [[OPNFV]]
| The Open Platform for [[Network function virtualization|Network Function Virtualization]] (NFV) "aims to be a carrier-grade, integrated platform that introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/opnfv/ |title=What is OPNFV or Open Platform for NFV Project? |work=SDxCentral |access-date=2017-05-23 |language=en-US |archive-date=2019-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202221938/https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/opnfv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2016, the project began an internship program, created a working group and an "End User Advisory Group"
|-
| [[Overture Maps Foundation]]
| In mid-December 2022, the foundation announced the launch of a new mapping collaboration, the [[Overture Maps Foundation]]. Its founding members were [[Amazon Web Services]] (AWS), [[Meta Platforms|Meta]], [[Microsoft]] and [[TomTom]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sawers |first=Paul |date=2022-12-15 |title=Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-microsoft-aws-and-tomtom-launch-the-overture-maps-foundation-to-develop-interoperable-open-map-data/ar-AA15iVuh |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=MSN |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216093837/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-microsoft-aws-and-tomtom-launch-the-overture-maps-foundation-to-develop-interoperable-open-map-data/ar-AA15iVuh |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Plumb |first=Taryn |date=2022-12-15 |title=Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation |url=https://venturebeat.com/virtual/creating-the-ultimate-smart-map-with-new-map-data-initiative-launched-by-linux-foundation/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=VentureBeat |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216093840/https://venturebeat.com/virtual/creating-the-ultimate-smart-map-with-new-map-data-initiative-launched-by-linux-foundation/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Linux Foundation Announces Overture Maps Foundation to Build Interoperable Open Map Data |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-foundation-announces-overture-maps-110000418.html |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=finance.yahoo.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216093833/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-foundation-announces-overture-maps-110000418.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is intended to be complementary to the crowdsourced [[OpenStreetMap|OpenStreetMap (OSM)]] project and the foundation encourages members to contribute data directly to OSM.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FAQ – Overture Maps Foundation |url=https://overturemaps.org/resources/faq/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216095116/https://overturemaps.org/resources/faq/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[RethinkDB]]
| After RethinkDB announced its shutdown as a business,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html |title=RethinkDB: why we failed |website=defstartup.org |language=en |access-date=2017-05-30 |archive-date=2017-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530012158/http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the Linux Foundation announced that it had purchased the intellectual property under its Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, which was then relicensed under the Apache License (ASLv2).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Asay |first=Matt |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/3166091/open-source-tools/rethinkdb-finds-a-new-home-at-the-linux-foundation.html |title=RethinkDB finds a new home at the Linux Foundation |work=InfoWorld |access-date=2017-05-30 |language=en |archive-date=2017-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529213555/http://www.infoworld.com/article/3166091/open-source-tools/rethinkdb-finds-a-new-home-at-the-linux-foundation.html? |url-status=live }}</ref> RethinkDB describes itself as "the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rethinkdb.com/faq/ |title=Frequently asked questions – RethinkDB |website=rethinkdb.com |access-date=2017-05-30 |archive-date=2017-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626044835/https://www.rethinkdb.com/faq/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[RISC-V]]
| The RISC-V International association<ref>{{cite web|url=https://riscv.org/|title=RISC-V International|access-date=2020-12-31|archive-date=2023-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124211108/https://riscv.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> is chartered to standardize and promote the open RISC-V instruction set architecture together with its hardware and software ecosystem for use in all computing devices.
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| [[seL4]]
| [[L4 microkernel family#High assurance: seL4|seL4]] is the only [[microkernel]] in existence which has been developed using [[formal verification]] techniques. It belongs to the [[L4 microkernel family]] and was, like the other L4 microkernels, designed to attain great security and performance.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2020/04/sel4-microkernel-optimized-for-security-gets-support-of-linux-foundation/ |title=seL4 Microkernel Optimized for Security Gets Support of Linux Foundation |date=7 April 2020 |access-date=2021-01-22 |archive-date=2016-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315212902/https://www.nicta.com.au/category/research/media-releases/secure-operating-system-developed-by-nicta-goes-open-source/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| [[Servo (software)|Servo]]
| [[Servo (software)|Servo]] is a browser engine developed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/ |title=Servo's new home |access-date=2021-01-22 |archive-date=2021-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520000447/https://blog.servo.org/2020/11/17/servo-home/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was originally developed by Mozilla and later donated to the Linux Foundation.
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| [[Software Package Data Exchange]]
| The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) project was started in 2010, to create a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with software packages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.spdx.org/ |title=SPDX |access-date=2017-05-24 |archive-date=2017-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517023533/https://spdx.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As part of the project, there is a team that curates the SPDX License List, which defines a list of identifiers for commonly found licenses and exceptions used for open source and other collaborative software.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://spdx.org/license-list |title=SPDX License List |access-date=2017-05-24 |archive-date=2017-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830050810/https://spdx.org/license-list |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| [[Tizen]]
| Tizen is a free and open-source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs.
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| [[Xen Project]]
| The Xen Project team is a global open source community that develops the [[Xen]] Hypervisor, contributes to the Linux PVOPS framework, the Xen® Cloud Platform, and Xen® ARM.
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| [[Yocto Project]]
| The Yocto Project<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yoctoproject.org/|title=Yocto project|access-date=2020-12-31|archive-date=2021-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106193909/https://www.yoctoproject.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.
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| [[Zephyr Project]]
| Zephyr is a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures. It is developed as an open source collaboration project and released under the Apache License 2.0. Zephyr became a project of the Linux Foundation in February 2016.
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| Open Mobile Hub
| Open Mobile Hub (OMH) ecosystem initiative launched in September 2023 is a open source services framework platform designed to simplify and enhance mobile app development across diverse environments. OMH streamlines app development by providing a single set of APIs that can support any [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[iOS]] and [[HarmonyOS]] device with OMH plugins to support account login systems, mapping services systems, and wide range backend services creating greater compatibility and interoperability of apps by developers.<ref>{{cite web |title=OpenMobileHub |url=https://www.openmobilehub.com/ |website=OHM |publisher=Linux Foundation |access-date=9 April 2024}}</ref>
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== Community stewardship ==
The origins of The Linux Foundation can be traced to 1993 when Patrick D'Cruze started the [[Linux International]] email list then known as LI.
For the Linux kernel community, the Linux Foundation hosts its IT infrastructure and organizes conferences such as the Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference. It also hosts a Technical Advisory Board made up of Linux kernel developers. One of these developers is appointed to sit on the Linux Foundation board.


=== Goodwill partnership ===
In 1993 at Comdex, [[Bob Young (businessman)|Bob Young]] introduced [[Mark Bolzern]] to the LI list and shortly thereafter Bolzern shared his vision and was asked to “make it so” by the members of the list. Bolzern funded LI and its activities until others eventually joined. The vision defined among other things, an entity to deal with traditional public relations on behalf of [[Linus Torvalds]], and to file for TradeMark on behalf of Linus among many other things about to be described. Under Bolzern’s direction, LI became a collaboration of Linux related vendors and technologists, heading a single direction that served everyone (the entire Linux movement) according to the original vision. It became clear that Bolzern could not continue to be both CEO of WorkGroup Solutions/LinuxMall AND executive director of Linux International at the same time because of perceived conflict of interest. So:
In January 2016, the Linux Foundation announced a partnership with Goodwill Central Texas to help hundreds of disadvantaged individuals from underserved communities and a variety of backgrounds get the training they need to start careers in Linux IT.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/124771/20160116/linux-for-everyone-goodwill-partnership-yields-exciting-scholarship-to-teach-you-new-skills.htm |title=Linux For Everyone! Goodwill Partnership Yields Exciting Scholarship To Teach You New Skills |date=2016-01-16 |website=Tech Times |access-date=2016-03-14 |archive-date=2016-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314160258/http://www.techtimes.com/articles/124771/20160116/linux-for-everyone-goodwill-partnership-yields-exciting-scholarship-to-teach-you-new-skills.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>


=== Community Specification ===
In mid 1994 Bolzern and Young recruited [[Jon Hall (programmer)|Jon "maddog" Hall]] into the Executive Director position, who in turn filed the Corporate paperwork on behalf of the new Board of Directors while Bolzern also remained on the Board, as well as continued leading trade show and marketing efforts until late 1999. This included many trips for Press Relations and User Groups by Bolzern, or maddog. Bolzern also organized and managed the launch of Linux Pavilions at major trade shows of the time such as UniForum, Comdex, Usenix, and eventually with maddog helping to establish the Atlanta Linux Showcase, then helped [[Larry Augustin]](LI Board Member) and the Silicon Valley Linux user group create the San Francisco Linux Expo. Especially notable in the 94–98 timeframe [https://web.archive.org/web/19980526174129/http://www.li.org/News/trademark.html was an anti-fraud Linux Trademark filing led by LI]. Already included in the LI suite of projects by the mid 90s were the [[Linux Mark Institute]], Linux Base Standard, Certification Programs and the Trade Show & Press relationships along with actually being a Vendor association. Here is a page outlining [https://web.archive.org/web/20051201022055/http://www.li.org/who/index.php Linux International's membership] as of the latter half of the 90s. The list is not presented as alphabetical, but as agreed in order of merit to LI & Linux. Bolzern & maddog continued to provide the bulk of the funding until about 1998, augmented by vendor and individual membership fees.
In July 2020, the Linux Foundation announced an initiative allowing open source communities to create Open Standards using tools and methods inspired by open source developers.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-10|title=Linux Foundation launches Community Specification for creating standards and specifications|url=https://sdtimes.com/open-source/linux-foundation-launches-community-specification-for-creating-standards-and-specifications/|access-date=2020-07-13|website=SD Times|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713081226/https://sdtimes.com/open-source/linux-foundation-launches-community-specification-for-creating-standards-and-specifications/|url-status=live}}</ref>


=== Core Infrastructure Initiative ===
As more and more individuals and sponsors joined the LI vision, by 1999 LI had already become a vendor-neutral 501c6 Non-Profit Industry Association for Linux with Linus Torvalds' blessing, while Linus himself focused on development and technical excellence for Linux itself. LI's primary purpose was to be that Industry Marketing Organization that also supported Linux related Certification Programs, along with development of essential Projects and Education. The vision was huge, as large vendors began to come to the party and expected more sophistication. Thus more help was needed even as Bolzern was being distracted because his wife was diagnosed with cancer, and maddog was becoming weary of the load. With everyone's support Augustin took action and suggested another organization be formed to continue.
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by the Linux Foundation that enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify and fund critical open source projects in need of assistance. In June 2015, the organization announced financial support of nearly $500,000 for three new projects to better support critical security elements of the global information infrastructure.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/linux-foundation-funds-internet-security-advances/d/d-id/1321044 |title=Linux Foundation Funds Internet Security Advances – InformationWeek |website=InformationWeek |date=25 June 2015 |access-date=2016-03-15 |archive-date=2016-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315100107/http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/linux-foundation-funds-internet-security-advances/d/d-id/1321044 |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 2016, CII launched its Best Practice Badge program to raise awareness of development processes and project governance steps that will help projects have better security outcomes. In May 2017, CII issued its 100th badge to a passing project.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/blogs/2017/09/1000-projects-registered-cii-best-practice-badge-100-badges-granted-and-prizes |title=1,000 Projects Registered for the CII Best Practice Badge, 100 Badges Granted and Prizes!!! {{!}} Core Infrastructure Initiative |website=coreinfrastructure.org |language=en |access-date=2017-11-10 |archive-date=2017-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110225316/https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/blogs/2017/09/1000-projects-registered-cii-best-practice-badge-100-badges-granted-and-prizes |url-status=live }}</ref>


=== Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) ===
In 2000, OSDL was founded after appealing to the Linux International Board of Directors for a number of the fundamental projects that are still part of the Linux Foundation today. OSDL was a non-profit organization supported by a global consortium that aimed to "accelerate the deployment of Linux for enterprise computing" and "to be the recognized center-of-gravity for the Linux industry."[[Linux Foundation#cite note-9|[9]]] while Jon "maddog" Hall then went a different direction with LI.org.
{{See also|Open Database License}}
Introduced in October 2017,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vaughan-Nichols |first=Steven J. |url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/open-sourcing-data-will-make-big-data-bigger-than-ever/ |title=Open-sourcing data will make big data bigger than ever {{!}} ZDNet |work=ZDNet |access-date=2017-11-11 |language=en |archive-date=2017-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026201245/http://www.zdnet.com/article/open-sourcing-data-will-make-big-data-bigger-than-ever/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) is a legal framework for sharing data.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://cdla.io/faq/ |title=FAQ – CDLA |work=CDLA |access-date=2017-11-11 |language=en-US |archive-date=2017-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111205414/https://cdla.io/faq/ |url-status=live }}</ref> There are two initial CDLA licenses:
* The CDLA-Sharing license was designed to embody the principles of [[copyleft]] in a data license. It puts terms in place to ensure that downstream recipients can use and modify that data, and are also required to share their changes to the data.
* The CDLA-Permissive agreement is similar to permissive open source licenses in that the publisher of data allows anyone to use, modify and do what they want with the data with no obligations to share changes or modifications.


=== Linux.com ===
In 2003, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the freely available Linux kernel, announced he would join the organization as an OSDL Fellow to work full-time on future versions of Linux.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnet.com/news/linux-lab-lands-torvalds/|title=Linux lab lands Torvalds|website=CNET|access-date=2016-04-14}}</ref>
{{Further|Linux.com}}
On March 3, 2009, the Linux Foundation announced that they would take over the management of [[Linux.com]] from its previous owners, [[SourceForge, Inc]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Linux Foundation Acquires Linux.com {{!}} ConsortiumInfo.org|url=http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/articles/linux-foundation-acquires-linuxcom|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Consortiuminfo.org Standards Blog|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023033315/http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/articles/linux-foundation-acquires-linuxcom|url-status=live}}</ref>


The site was relaunched on May 13, 2009, shifting away from its previous incarnation as a news site to become a central source for Linux tutorials, information, software, documentation and answers across the server, desktop/netbook, mobile, and embedded areas. It also includes a directory of Linux software and hardware.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Montalbano|first=Elizabeth|date=2009-03-03|title=Linux.com to get a makeover|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/2264089/linux-com-to-get-a-makeover.html|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Network World|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019190828/https://www.networkworld.com/article/2264089/linux-com-to-get-a-makeover.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2007, OSDL merged with the Free Standards Group, another organization promoting the adoption of Linux. At the time, [[Jim Zemlin]], who headed FSG, took over as executive director of The Linux Foundation<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/technology/22linux.html|title=Group Formed to Support Linux as Rival to Windows|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=2007-01-22|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-14}}</ref> where he remains today.


Much like Linux itself, [[Linux.com]] plans to rely on the community to create and drive content and conversation.
On September 11, 2011, The Linux Foundation's website was taken down due to a breach discovered 27 days prior, including but limited to all attendant subdomains of The Linux Foundation, such as Linux.com.<ref>{{cite web|last=Proffitt |first=Brian |url=http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/202179/linuxcom-linux-foundation-sites-breached |title=Linux.com, Linux Foundation Sites Breached |publisher=ITworld |date=2011-09-11 |accessdate=2013-06-29}}</ref> Major parts including OpenPrinting<ref>{{cite web|url=http://danieru.com/2011/10/13/openprinting-down-due-to-hack-at-the-linux-foundation/ |title=Openprinting down due to hack at the linux foundation &#124; Daniel Dressler |publisher=Danieru.com |date=2011-10-13 |accessdate=2013-06-29}}</ref> were still offline on October 20, 2011. The restoration was complete on January 4, 2012 (although one site, the Linux Developer Network, will not be restored).<ref>{{cite web|last=Proffitt|first=Brian|title=Linux Foundation sites back in action|url=http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/237829/linux-foundation-sites-almost-all-back-action|publisher=ITworld|accessdate=5 January 2012}}</ref>


=== Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) ===
In March 2014, The Linux Foundation announced it would begin building a [[Massive open online course|MOOC]] program with nonprofit education platform, [[edX]]. The aim of this collaboration was to serve the rapidly growing demand for Linux expertise in a vehicle that was available to "anyone, anywhere in the world, at any time." At this point, their first offering was a basic "Introduction to Linux" course, but the library has since expanded to include Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, Intro to DevOps, and Intro to OpenStack.
In 2020 amidst the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the Linux Foundation announced the LFPH,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lfph.io/|title=Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH)|access-date=2020-12-31|archive-date=2020-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230215109/https://www.lfph.io/|url-status=live}}</ref> a program dedicated to advancing and supporting the virus contact tracing work led by [[Google]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] and their Bluetooth notification systems. The LFPH is focusing its efforts on public health applications, including the effort's first initiative: a notification app intended for governments wanting to launch their privacy-focused exposure notification networks. As of today, LFPH hosts two contact-tracing apps.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chan|first=Rosalie|title=The Linux Foundation wants to help combat COVID-19 with free, open-source apps to tell people when they've been exposed to the virus|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/linux-foundation-public-health-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-2020-10|access-date=2020-11-02|website=Business Insider|archive-date=2020-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101190943/https://www.businessinsider.com/linux-foundation-public-health-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-2020-10|url-status=live}}</ref>


=== LF Climate Finance Foundation ===
On November 16, 2016, The Linux Foundation Announced that Microsoft, traditionally seen as a competitor, had joined the organization as a Platinum member. The news was widely recognized as further evidence of an industry-wide embrace of open source software. [[Scott Guthrie]], Executive Vice President of the Microsoft [[Microsoft engineering groups#Cloud and Enterprise|Cloud and Enterprise Group]] explained that the company was "excited to join The Linux Foundation and partner with the community to help developers capitalize on the shift to intelligent cloud and mobile experiences."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-joining-the-linux-foundation-comes-down-to-one-word-cloud/|title=Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation comes down to one word: Cloud|work=TechRepublic|access-date=2017-09-25|language=en}}</ref>
In September 2020, The Linux Foundation announced the LF Climate Finance Foundation (LFCF), a new initiative "to encourage investment in AI-enhanced open source analytics to [[climate change mitigation|address climate change]]."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-04|title=Linux Foundation takes on climate change|url=http://linuxgizmos.com/linux-foundation-takes-on-climate-change/|access-date=2020-09-06|website=LinuxGizmos.com|archive-date=2020-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923165232/http://linuxgizmos.com/linux-foundation-takes-on-climate-change/|url-status=live}}</ref> LFCF plans to build a platform that will utilize open-source open data to help the financial investment, NGO, and academia sectors to help better model companies’ exposure to climate change.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-01|title=Sharing data to help launch the Linux Foundation Climate Finance Foundation|url=https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/01/open-data-climate-finance-foundation/|access-date=2020-09-06|website=Microsoft on the Issues|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902175700/https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/01/open-data-climate-finance-foundation/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Allianz]], Amazon, Microsoft, and [[S&P Global]] will be the initiative's founding members.<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 2, 2020|first=Allen|last=Bernard|title=Linux Foundation commits to addressing climate change with data and analytics|url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-foundation-commits-to-addressing-climate-change-with-data-and-analytics/|access-date=2020-09-06|website=TechRepublic|language=en|archive-date=2020-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200905120729/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-foundation-commits-to-addressing-climate-change-with-data-and-analytics/|url-status=live}}</ref>


=== LF Energy ===
The Linux Foundation has brought a number of notable changes in the open source industry in 2017. At the inaugural [[Open Source Summit]] in Los Angeles, a collection of Open Source Guides for the Enterprise, created in partnership with TODO Group and open source managers/executives, were announced to provide further transparency to new open source projects looking to solidify their stance, strategy, and staying power.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.itchronicles.com/news/open-source-guides-enterprise-linux/|title=Open Source Guides for the Enterprise from Linux - ITChronicles|date=2017-09-15|work=ITChronicles|access-date=2017-09-25|language=en-US}}</ref> The event was also a platform to announce the foundation's CHAOSS Project (to build a platform for analyzing open source projects.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linux.com/news/if-you-cant-measure-it-you-cant-improve-it-chaoss-project-creates-tools-analyze-software|title=If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It: CHAOSS Project Creates Tools to Analyze Software Development and Measure Open Source Community Health|website=Linux.com {{!}} The source for Linux information|language=en|access-date=2017-09-25}}</ref> Despite a rivalry in the [[Real-time ridesharing|rideshare]] market, Uber and Lyft displayed unity in announcing two new projects under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) umbrella at Open Source Summit.
{{Main|LF Energy}}
[[LF Energy]] is an initiative launched by the Linux Foundation in 2018 to improve the [[power grid]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/6162201/open-source-green-grid/|title=Harnessing Collective Action to Green the Grid|magazine=Time|access-date=2022-05-18|archive-date=2022-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518185727/https://time.com/6162201/open-source-green-grid/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.powermag.com/open-source-technology-benefits-transmission-and-distribution-operators/|title=Open-Source Technology Benefits Transmission and Distribution Operators|first=Aaron|last=Larson|newspaper=Power Magazine|date=June 10, 2021|access-date=May 18, 2022|archive-date=July 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706044117/https://www.powermag.com/open-source-technology-benefits-transmission-and-distribution-operators/|url-status=live}}</ref>


[[File:LinuxconNorthAmerica2016.jpg|thumb|[[Linus Torvalds]] at [[LinuxCon]] North America 2016]]
On January 23, 2018, The Linux Foundation announced that six of its open source networking projects (ONAP, [[Open Platform for NFV|OPNFV]], [[OpenDaylight Project|OpenDaylight]], FD.io, PNDA, & SNAS) would be united under one umbrella project called the LF Networking Fund (LFN).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-foundation-seeks-to-bring-rhyme-and-reason-to-open-source-networking-projects/|title=Linux Foundation seeks to bring rhyme and reason to open-source networking projects|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|date=January 24, 2018|work=ZDNet|access-date=2018-02-01|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref> Arpit Joshipura, formerly the Director of Networking and Orchestration at the foundation became the Executive Director of LFN, while Heather Kirksey (formerly director of OPNFV,) became The Linux Foundation's VP of NFV. Participation in LFN is voluntary for the networking projects and is free to decide whether or not to join the fund. Each projects continues to maintain its technical independence.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/linux-foundation-combines-6-networking-projects-1/2018/01/|title=Linux Foundation Combines 6 Networking Projects Into 1|work=SDxCentral|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Training and certification ===
The Linux Foundation Training Program features instructors and content from the leaders of the Linux developer and open-source communities.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|title=Best Linux Foundation classes in 2020: Intro to Linux, Cloud Engineer Bootcamp, and more|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-foundation-classes-and-online-linux-courses/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=ZDNet|language=en|archive-date=2020-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104142624/https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-foundation-classes-and-online-linux-courses/|url-status=live}}</ref>


Participants receive Linux training that is vendor-neutral and created with oversight from leaders of the Linux development community. The Linux Foundation's online and in-person training programs aim to deliver broad, foundational knowledge and networking opportunities.
== Goals ==
The Linux Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and commercial adoption. It is the home of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, and provides a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated for years to come.


In March 2014, the Linux Foundation and [[edX]] partnered to offer a free massive open online class titled Introduction to Linux.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2105260/linux-foundation-to-offer-introductory-linux-mooc-on-edx.html |title=Linux Foundation to offer introductory Linux MOOC on edX |date=2014-03-05 |website=PCWorld |access-date=2016-03-10 |archive-date=2021-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129042539/https://www.pcworld.com/article/2105260/linux-foundation-to-offer-introductory-linux-mooc-on-edx.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This was the first in a series of ongoing free offerings from both organizations whose current catalogue of [[Massive open online course|MOOCs]] include Intro to DevOps, Intro to Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture, Intro to Apache Hadoop, Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, and Intro to OpenStack.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.edx.org/school/linuxfoundationx |title=LinuxFoundationX |date=2014-03-03 |work=edX |access-date=2017-04-25 |language=en |archive-date=2021-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115230856/https://www.edx.org/school/linuxfoundationx |url-status=live }}</ref>
It also fosters innovation by hosting collaborative events among the Linux technical community, software developers, industry, and end users to solve pressing issues facing Linux and open source.


In December 2015, the Linux Foundation introduced a self-paced course designed to help prepare administrators for the OpenStack Foundation's Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rcrwireless.com/20151203/telecom-software/linux-foundation-moves-openstack-training-online-tag2 |title=Linux Foundation moves OpenStack training online |date=2015-12-03 |website=RCR Wireless News |language=en-US |access-date=2016-03-10 |archive-date=2016-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310073708/http://www.rcrwireless.com/20151203/telecom-software/linux-foundation-moves-openstack-training-online-tag2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
The Linux Foundation supports the [[Linux community]] by offering technical information and education through its annual events, such as Open Source Leadership Summit, [[Linux Kernel Developers Summit]], and [[Open Source Summit]] (formerly known as LinuxCon,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/linux-goes-to-hollywood-for-inaugural-open-source-summit|title=Linux Goes to Hollywood for Inaugural Open Source Summit|work=eWEEK|access-date=2017-09-25|language=en-US}}</ref> inaugurated in September 2009). A developer travel fund<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://events.linuxfoundation.org/travel-request/request|title=Travel Fund Request Form {{!}} Linux Conferences and Linux Events {{!}} The Linux Foundation|website=events.linuxfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref> is available.


As part of a partnership with Microsoft, it was announced in December 2015 that the Linux on Azure certification would be awarded to individuals who pass both the Microsoft Exam 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) and the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://betanews.com/2015/12/09/microsoft-linux-foundation-azure-certification/ |title=Microsoft partners with The Linux Foundation for 'Linux on Azure' certification |date=2015-12-09 |website=BetaNews |access-date=2016-03-10 |archive-date=2016-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310074811/http://betanews.com/2015/12/09/microsoft-linux-foundation-azure-certification/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Initiatives ==


In early 2017, at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit, it was announced that the Linux Foundation would begin offering an Inclusive Speaker Orientation course in partnership with the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The course is designed to give participants "practical skills to promote inclusivity in their presentations."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/linux-foundation-and-national-center-for-women-information-technology-release |title=The Linux Foundation and the National Center for Women & Information Technology Release Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course for Events {{!}} The Linux Foundation |website=linuxfoundation.org |language=en |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426055931/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/linux-foundation-and-national-center-for-women-information-technology-release |archive-date=2017-04-26 |access-date=2017-04-25}}</ref>
=== Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) ===
{{see also|Open Database License}}
Introduced in October 2017,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/open-sourcing-data-will-make-big-data-bigger-than-ever/|title=Open-sourcing data will make big data bigger than ever {{!}} ZDNet|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|work=ZDNet|access-date=2017-11-11|language=en}}</ref> the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) is a legal framework for sharing data.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://cdla.io/faq/|title=FAQ - CDLA|work=CDLA|access-date=2017-11-11|language=en-US}}</ref> There are two initial CDLA licenses:
* The CDLA-Sharing license was designed to embody the principles of [[copyleft]] in a data license. It puts terms in place to ensure that downstream recipients can use and modify that data, and are also required to share their changes to the data.
* The CDLA-Permissive agreement is similar to permissive open source licenses in that the publisher of data allows anyone to use, modify and do what they want with the data with no obligations to share changes or modifications.


In September 2020, the Linux Foundation released a free [[serverless computing]] training course with CNCF. It is taught by Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Learn About Serverless with The Linux Foundation on edX|url=https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/13988-learn-about-serverless-with-cncf-and-the-linux-foundation-on-edx.html|access-date=2020-09-14|website=i-programmer.info|archive-date=2020-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919095214/https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/13988-learn-about-serverless-with-cncf-and-the-linux-foundation-on-edx.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Linux.com ===
On March 3, 2009, the Linux Foundation announced that they would take over management of [[Linux.com]] from its previous owners, [[SourceForge, Inc]].


Among many other organizations with similar offerings, The Linux Foundation has reported a 40% increase in demand for their online courses in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting social-distancing measures.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 27, 2020|first=Macy|last=Bayern|title=Enterprise eLearning: Uptick in education demand during coronavirus outbreak|url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/enterprise-elearning-uptick-in-education-demand-during-coronavirus-outbreak/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=TechRepublic|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019153645/https://www.techrepublic.com/article/enterprise-elearning-uptick-in-education-demand-during-coronavirus-outbreak/|url-status=live}}</ref>
The site was relaunched on May 13, 2009, shifting away from its previous incarnation as a news site to become a central source for Linux tutorials, information, software, documentation and answers across the server, desktop/netbook, mobile, and embedded areas. It also includes a directory of Linux software and hardware.

Much like Linux itself, [[Linux.com]] plans to rely on the community to create and drive the content and conversation.

=== Training and Certification ===
The Linux Foundation Training Program features instructors and content straight from the leaders of the Linux developer and open source communities.

Participants receive Linux training that is vendor-neutral, technically advanced, and created with the actual leaders of the Linux development community themselves. The Linux Foundation Linux training courses, both online and in-person (at events and corporate onsite,) give attendees the broad, foundational knowledge and networking needed to thrive in their careers.

In March 2014, The Linux Foundation and [[edX]] partnered to offer a free massive open online class titled ''Introduction to Linux.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2105260/linux-foundation-to-offer-introductory-linux-mooc-on-edx.html|title=Linux Foundation to offer introductory Linux MOOC on edX|website=PCWorld|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> This was the first in a series of ongoing free offerings from both organizations whose current catalogue of [[Massive open online course|MOOC]]<nowiki/>s include Intro to Devops, Intro to Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture, Intro to Apache Hadoop, Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, and Intro to OpenStack<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.edx.org/school/linuxfoundationx|title=LinuxFoundationX|date=2014-03-03|work=edX|access-date=2017-04-25|language=en}}</ref>

In December 2015, The Linux Foundation introduced a self-paced course designed to help prepare administrators for the OpenStack Foundation's Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rcrwireless.com/20151203/telecom-software/linux-foundation-moves-openstack-training-online-tag2|title=Linux Foundation moves OpenStack training online|website=RCR Wireless News|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref>

As part of a partnership with Microsoft, it was announced in December 2015 that the Linux on Azure certification would be awarded to individuals who pass both the Microsoft Exam 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) and the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://betanews.com/2015/12/09/microsoft-linux-foundation-azure-certification/|title=Microsoft partners with The Linux Foundation for 'Linux on Azure' certification|website=BetaNews|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref>

In early 2017 at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit, it was announced that The Linux Foundation would begin offering an Inclusive Speaker Orientation course in partnership with the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The free course is designed to give participants "practical skills to promote inclusivity in their presentations."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/linux-foundation-and-national-center-for-women-information-technology-release|title=The Linux Foundation and the National Center for Women & Information Technology Release Inclusive Speaker Orientation Course for Events {{!}} The Linux Foundation|website=www.linuxfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-25|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426055931/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/linux-foundation-and-national-center-for-women-information-technology-release|archivedate=2017-04-26|df=}}</ref>


=== Patent Commons Project ===
=== Patent Commons Project ===
The ''patent commons'' consists of all [[patent]]ed [[software]] which has been made available to the [[open-source|open source]] community. For software to be considered to be in the [[commons]] the patent owner must guarantee that developers will not be sued for infringement, though there may be some restrictions on the use of the patented code. The concept was first given substance by [[Red Hat]] in 2001 when it published its Patent Promise.<ref>{{cite web
The ''patent commons'' consists of all [[patent]]ed [[software]] which has been made available to the [[Open-source model|open source]] community. For software to be considered to be in the [[commons]] the patent owner must guarantee that developers will not be sued for infringement, though there may be some restrictions on the use of the patented code. The concept was first given substance by [[Red Hat]] in 2001 when it published its Patent Promise.<ref>{{cite web
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The ''Patent Commons Project'' was launched on November 15, 2005 by the [[OSDL|Open Source Development Labs]] (OSDL). The core of the project is an [[Internet|online]] patent commons reference [[library]] aggregating and documenting information about patent-related [[Pledge (law)|pledges]] and other [[law|legal]] solutions directed at the open-source software community. {{As of|2015}} the project listed 53 patents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.patentcommons.org/|title=Patent Commons Project|publisher=Linux Foundation|accessdate=2015-03-30}}</ref>
The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15, 2005, by the [[OSDL|Open Source Development Labs]] (OSDL). The core of the project is an [[Internet|online]] patent commons reference [[library]] aggregating and documenting information about patent-related [[Pledge (law)|pledges]] and other [[law|legal]] solutions directed at the open-source software community. {{As of|2015}}, the project listed 53 patents.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.patentcommons.org/ |title=Patent Commons Project |publisher=Linux Foundation |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-date=2015-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218042538/http://www.patentcommons.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Linux Foundation Projects ==
Linux Foundation Projects (originally "Collaborative Projects") are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. More than 500 companies and thousands of developers from around the world contribute to these open source software projects.

As of September 2015, the total lines of source code present in Linux Foundation's Collaborative Projects are 115,013,302. The estimated, total amount of effort required to retrace the steps of collaborative development for these projects is 41,192.25 person years. In other words, it would take 1,356 developers 30 years to recreate the code bases. At that time, the total economic value of development costs of Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects was estimated at $5 billion.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSnMKWsd3zWa+1c2+MKW20150930|title=The Linux Foundation Releases First-Ever Value of Collaborative Development Report|date=2015-09-30|newspaper=Reuters|access-date=2016-03-14|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314160005/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSnMKWsd3zWa+1c2+MKW20150930|archivedate=2016-03-14|df=}}</ref> Through continued investment in open source projects and growth in the number of projects hosted, this number rose to $15.6 billion by September 2017.

Some of the projects include (alphabetical order):

=== AllJoyn ===
[[AllJoyn]] is an open source application framework for connected devices and services was formed under Allseen Alliance in 2013. The project is now sponsored as an independent Linux Foundation project by the [[Open Connectivity Foundation]] (OCF).

=== Automotive Grade Linux ===
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[[Automotive Grade Linux]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.automotivelinux.org|title=Home|publisher=|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref> (AGL) is a collaborative open source project developing a Linux-based, open platform for the connected car that can serve as the de facto standard for the industry. Although initially focused on [[In-car entertainment|In-Vehicle Infotainment]] (IVI), the AGL roadmap includes instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics and autonomous driving.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2016/06/11/automotive-grade-linux-releases-unified-code-base-2-0|title=Automotive Grade Linux Releases Unified Code Base 2.0|publisher=|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref> The goals of AGL are to provide:
* An automotive-focused core Linux operating system stack that meets common and shared requirements of the automotive ecosystem
* A transparent, collaborative and open environment for Automotive OEMs, Tier One suppliers, and their semiconductor and software vendors to create in-vehicle software
* A collective voice for working with other open source projects and developing new open source solutions
* An embedded Linux distribution that enables rapid prototyping for developers new to Linux or teams with prior open source experience<ref>{{cite web|last1=Counts|first1=Reese|title=Automotive Grade Linux will be the backbone of your connected car|url=http://www.autoblog.com/2017/01/06/automotive-grade-linux-connected-car-backbone/|website=Autoblog|publisher=Autoblog|accessdate=5 April 2017}}</ref>

====AGL technology====
On June 30, 2014, AGL announced their first release, which was based on [https://www.tizen.org/ Tizen IVI] and was primarily for demo applications.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tozzi|first1=Christopher|title=Automotive Grade Linux Released for Open Source Cars|url=http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/070114/automotive-grade-linux-released-open-source-cars|website=The Var Guy|accessdate=18 April 2017}}</ref> AGL expanded the first reference platform with the Unified Code Base (UCB) distribution.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kerner|first1=Sean Michael|title=Linux Foundation Accelerates Automotive Grade Linux|url=http://www.eweek.com/mobile/linux-foundation-accelerates-automotive-grade-linux|website=eWeek|accessdate=18 April 2017}}</ref> The first UCB release, nicknamed Agile Albacore, was released in January 2016 and leverages software components from AGL, Tizen and GENIVI Alliance. UCB 2.0, nicknamed Brilliant Blowfish, was made available in July 2016 and included new features like rear seat display, video playback, audio routing and application framework.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cunningham|first1=Wayne|title=Open-source Linux a step closer to automotive use|url=https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/open-source-linux-a-step-closer-to-automotive-use/|website=Road Show, CNET|accessdate=18 April 2017}}</ref> UCB 3.0, or Charming Chinook<ref>{{cite web|url=http://linuxgizmos.com/agl-v3-0-automotive-spec-is-ready-for-the-road/|title=AGL's v3.0 automotive spec is ready for the road|date=4 January 2017|publisher=}}</ref> was released in January 2017. AGL plans to support additional use cases such as instrument clusters and telematics systems.

=== Carrier Grade Linux ===
The "CGL" Workgroup's main purpose is to "interface with network equipment providers and carriers to gather requirements and produce specifications that Linux distribution vendors can implement."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/cgl/start|title=cgl:start [Linux Foundation Wiki]|website=wiki.linuxfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-25}}</ref> It also serves to use unimplemented requirements to foster development projects that will assist in the upstream integration of these requirements.

=== Cloud Foundry ===
[[Cloud Foundry]] is an&nbsp;open source, multi cloud application&nbsp;[[platform as a service]]&nbsp;(PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a 501(c)(6) organization. In January 2015, the Cloud Foundry Foundation was created as an independent not-for-profit Linux Foundation&nbsp;Project. The foundation exists to increase awareness and adoption of Cloud Foundry, grow the contributor community, and create a cohesive strategy across all member companies. The Foundation serves as a neutral party holding all Cloud Foundry&nbsp;[[intellectual property]].

=== Cloud Native Computing Foundation ===
[[File:CloudNativeDay2016.jpg|thumb|CloudNativeDay 2016]]
The '''Cloud Native Computing Foundation'''<ref name="cncf">{{cite web |url=https://cncf.io/ |title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation |publisher=Linux Foundation |accessdate=2015-11-27 }}</ref> (CNCF) was founded in 2015 to promote [[Operating-system-level virtualization|containers]]. It was announced with [[Kubernetes]] 1.0, an open source container cluster manager, which was contributed to the foundation by [[Google]] as a seed technology. Founding members included Google, CoreOS, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, [[Cisco]], [[IBM]], [[Docker (software)|Docker]], [[Univa]], and [[VMware]].<ref name="zdnet-cncf">{{cite news |last=Vaughan-Nicholls |first=Steven J. |url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-native-computing-foundation-seeks-to-bring-more-cloud-and-container-unity/ |title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation seeks to forge cloud and container unity |work=[[ZDNet]] |date=2015-07-21 |accessdate=2015-11-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Vizard|first1=Michael|title=Cloud Giants Form Foundation to Drive Container Interoperability|url=http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/07/21/new-foundation-to-drive-docker-container-interoperability/|website=Data Knowledge Center|publisher=Penton|accessdate=9 December 2016}}</ref> In order to establish qualified representatives of the technologies governed by the CNCF, a program was announced at the inaugural CloudNativeDay in Toronto in August, 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Cloud Native Ambassadors and Docker Captains navigate users through the container ecosystem |work= Network World |author= Lee Calcote |date= 6 September 2016 |url= http://www.networkworld.com/article/3114747/open-source-tools/cloud-native-ambassadors-and-docker-captains-navigate-users-through-the-container-ecosystem.html |accessdate= 21 December 2016 }}</ref> [[Serial entrepreneur]] [[Dan Kohn]], who also helped launch CII, is the project's current executive director.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lightreading.com/services/cloud-services/cncf-names-kohn-as-executive-director/d/d-id/723826|title=CNCF Names Kohn as Executive Director {{!}} Light Reading|work=Light Reading|access-date=2017-12-28|language=en}}</ref>. In August 2018 Google announced that was handing over operational control of the project to the community <ref>https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/29/google-steps-back-from-running-the-kubernetes-infrastructure/</ref>.

==== Kubernetes ====
[[Kubernetes]] is an open source framework for automating deployment and managing applications in a containerized and clustered environment. "It aims to provide better ways of managing related, distributed components across varied infrastructure."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-kubernetes|title=An Introduction to Kubernetes {{!}} DigitalOcean|website=www.digitalocean.com|language=en|access-date=2017-05-16}}</ref> It was originally designed by Google and donated to The Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Kubernetes as the seed technology. The "large and diverse" community supporting the project has made its staying power more robust than other, older technologies of the same ilk.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/3118345/cloud-computing/why-kubernetes-is-winning-the-container-war.html|title=Why Kubernetes is winning the container war|last=Asay|first=Matt|work=InfoWorld|access-date=2017-05-16|language=en}}</ref>

==== CNI ====
Container Network Interface (CNI), a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, provides networking for Linux containers.

==== Containerd ====
Containerd is an industry-standard core container runtime. It is currently available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system. In 2015, Docker donated the OCI Specification to The Linux Foundation with a reference implementation called runc.

==== CoreDNS ====
CoreDNS, a [[Name server|DNS server]] that chains plugins, is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member project.

==== Envoy ====
Originally built at Lyft to move their architecture away from a monolith, Envoy is a high-performance open source edge and service proxy that makes the network transparent to applications. Lyft contributed Envoy to Cloud Native Computing Foundation in September 2017.

==== Fluentd ====
Fluentd is an open source data collector, allowing the user to "unify the data collection and consumption for a better use and understanding of data."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fluentd.org/architecture|title=What is Fluentd? {{!}} Fluentd|last=Project|first=Fluentd|website=www.fluentd.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-27}}</ref>

==== gRPC ====
gRPC is a "modern open source high performance [[Remote procedure call|RPC]] framework that can run in any environment."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grpc.io/about/|title=grpc / About|website=www.grpc.io|language=en|access-date=2017-05-09}}</ref> The project was formed in 2015 when Google decided to open source the next version of its RPC infrastructure ("Stubby"). The project has a number of early large industry adopters such as [[Square, Inc.]], [[Netflix]], and [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]].

==== Jaeger ====
Created by Uber Engineering, Jaeger is an open source distributed tracing system inspired by Google Dapper paper and OpenZipkin community. It can be used for tracing microservice-based architectures, including distributed context propagation, distributed transaction monitoring, root cause analysis, service dependency analysis, and performance/latency optimization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept Jaeger as the 12th hosted project in September 2017.

==== Linkerd ====
Linkerd is a CNCF member project, providing resilient service mesh for cloud native applications. The tool is based on the JVM ([[Java virtual machine|Java Virtual Machine]]) "for developers to help improve communications among microservices."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thenewstack.io/navigating-service-discovery-buoyants-linkerd/|title=Buoyant's Linkerd Offers RPC-based Microservices Communications - The New Stack|date=2016-05-06|work=The New Stack|access-date=2017-05-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

'''Notary'''

Notary is an open source project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data.<ref>{{Citation|title=notary: Notary is a project that allows anyone to have trust over arbitrary collections of data|date=2017-11-10|url=https://github.com/theupdateframework/notary|publisher=The Update Framework (TUF)|accessdate=2017-11-10}}</ref>

==== OpenTracing ====
OpenTracing is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member project. It offers "consistent, expressive, vendor-neutral APIs for popular platforms."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://opentracing.io/documentation/|title=Introduction · Opentracing|website=opentracing.io|access-date=2017-05-23}}</ref>

==== Prometheus ====
A Cloud Native Computing Foundation member project, Prometheus is a cloud monitoring tool sponsored by [[SoundCloud]] in early iterations. The tool is currently used by [[Digital Ocean]], [[Ericsson]], CoreOS, [[Docker (software)|Docker]], [[Red Hat]] and [[Google]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/09/cloud-native-foundation-adds-prometheus-monitoring-tool-as-its-second-hosted-project/|title=Cloud Native Foundation adds Prometheus monitoring tool as its second hosted project|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref> In August 2018, the tool was designated a "graduated" project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/09/prometheus-monitoring-tool-joins-kubernetes-as-cncfs-latest-graduated-project/|title=Prometheus monitoring tool joins Kubernetes as CNCF’s latest ‘graduated’ project|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref>

==== rkt ====
rkt, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.

==== The Update Framework ====
The Update Framework (TUF) helps developers to secure new or existing software update systems, which are often found to be vulnerable to many known attacks. TUF addresses this widespread problem by providing a comprehensive, flexible security framework that developers can integrate with any software update system.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theupdateframework.github.io/|title=The Update Framework (TUF)|website=The Update Framework (TUF)|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref>

=== CHAOSS ===
The Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS) project was announced at the 2017 [[Open Source Summit]] North America in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sdtimes.com/linux-foundation-sustainable-open-source/|title=Linux Foundation wants to promote sustainable open source|date=2017-09-18|work=SD Times|access-date=2017-09-25|language=en-US}}</ref> Overall, the project aims to provide transparency and health and security metrics for open-source projects.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/09/12/wake-equifax-breach-linux-foundation-unveils-open-source-chaoss-ossummit/|title=In wake of Equifax breach, Linux Foundation unveils open source CHAOSS - SiliconANGLE|date=2017-09-12|work=SiliconANGLE|access-date=2017-09-25|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Code Aurora Forum ===
Code Aurora Forum is a consortium of companies with projects serving the mobile wireless industry. Software projects it concerns itself with are e.g. Android for MSM, Femto Linux Project, [[LLVM]], MSM WLAN and Linux-MSM.

=== CORD ===
"CORD" (Central Office Re-Orchestrated as a Datacenter) combines SDN, NFV and cloud with commodity infrastructure and open building blocks. The project was introduced by ON.Lab in June 2015 at the Open Networking Summit. Its team was originally composed of AT&T, The Linux Foundation's ONOS project, [[PMC-Sierra]], and Sckipio.

=== Core Embedded Linux Project ===
Started in 2003, the Core Embedded Linux Project aims to provide a vendor-neutral place to establish core embedded Linux technologies beyond those of The Linux Foundation's Projects.&nbsp;From the start, any Linux Foundation member company has been allowed to apply for membership in the Core Embedded Linux Project.

=== Core Infrastructure Initiative ===
{{Main|Core Infrastructure Initiative}}
Announced on {{date|2014-04-25}} in the wake of [[Heartbleed]] to fund and support [[free and open-source software]] projects that are critical to the functioning of the [[Internet]].

=== DiaMon Workgroup ===
The DiaMon Workgroup&nbsp;works toward improving interoperability between open source tools&nbsp;and improve Linux-based tracing, profiling, logging, and monitoring features. According to the workgroup, DiaMon "aims&nbsp;to accelerate this development by making it easier to work together on common pieces."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://diamon.org/about/|title=About - The DiaMon Workgroup|website=diamon.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-27}}</ref>

=== DPDK ===
The [[Data Plane Development Kit]] consists of libraries to accelerate CPU architecture-running packet processing workloads. According to Intel, "DPDK can improve packet processing performance by up to ten times."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/data-plane-development-kit.html|title=DPDK Boosts Packet Processing, Performance, and Throughput|website=Intel|access-date=2017-04-27}}</ref>

=== Dronecode ===
Started in 2014, Dronecode began as an open source, collaborative project to unite current and future open source drone initiatives under the auspices of The Linux Foundation. The goal is a common, shared open source platform for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). [[Chris Anderson (writer)|Chris Anderson]] (CEO of [[3D Robotics]] & founder of DIY Drones) serves at the chairman of the board of directors.

=== EdgeX Foundry ===
Founded in 2017, EdgeX Foundry acts as a vendor-neutral interoperability&nbsp;framework. It is hosted&nbsp;in a hardware and OS agnostic reference&nbsp;platform and seeks to&nbsp;enable&nbsp;an ecosystem of plug-and-play&nbsp;components, uniting&nbsp;the marketplace and accelerating&nbsp;IoT deployment. The project wants to enable collaborators to&nbsp;freely work on&nbsp;open and interoperable IoT solutions&nbsp;with existing and self-created connectivity standards.&nbsp;

=== FD.io ===
The Fast Data Project-referred to as "Fido"- provides an [[Input/output|IO]] services framework for the next wave of network and storage software. In the stack, FD.io is the universal data plane. "FD.io runs completely in the user space," said Ed Warnicke<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/un-masking-fd-io-open-source-project-processes-packets/2017/04/|title=Un-Masking FD.io - the Open Source Project that Processes Packets|date=2017-04-13|work=SDxCentral|access-date=2017-04-27|language=en-US}}</ref> (consulting engineer with Cisco and chair of the FD.io technical steering committee).

=== FOSSology ===
FOSSology is primarily a project dedicated to an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. Users are able to run licenses, copyright and export control scans from the command line. A database and web UI provided a compliance workflow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fossology.org/about|title=About {{!}} FOSSology|website=www.fossology.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-27}}</ref>

=== FRRouting ===
FRRouting (FRR) is an IP routing protocol suite for Unix and Linux platforms. It incorporates protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP.

=== Hyperledger ===
The [[Hyperledger]] project is an global, open source effort based around advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies. In addition to being hosted by The Linux Foundation, it is backed by finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology leaders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/04/99277-blockchain-project-hyperledger-announces-seven-additional-members/|title=Blockchain Project Hyperledger Announces Seven Additional Members|date=2017-04-26|website=Crowdfund Insider|access-date=2017-05-09}}</ref> The project is the foundation's fastest growing to date,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hitachi.com/rev/archive/2017/r2017_01/expert/index.html|title=Blockchain is Here for the Enterprise: The Hyperledger Project : Hitachi Review|last=Ltd.|first=Hitachi,|work=Hitachi Review|access-date=2017-05-09|language=en-US}}</ref> boasting over 115 members since founding in 2016. In May 2016, co-founder of the [[Apache Software Foundation]], [[Brian Behlendorf]], joined the project as its executive director.

=== IO Visor ===
IO Visor is an open source project and community of developers that will enable a new way to innovate, develop and share IO and networking functions. It will advance IO and networking technologies to address new requirements presented by cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

=== IoTivity ===
[[IoTivity]] is an [[Open-source software|OSS]] framework enabling seamless device-to-device connectivity to aid the Internet of Things as it grows. While Allseen Alliance and Open Connectivity Foundation merged in October 2016, the IoT projects of each (AllJoyn and IoTivity, respectively) will continue operating under The Linux Foundation. The two projects will "collaborate to support future versions of the OCF specification with a single IoTivity implementation."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/3130102/allseens-merger-with-ocf-brings-iot-closer-to-common-ground.html|title=AllSeen's merger with OCF brings IoT closer to common ground|work=PCWorld|access-date=2017-05-09|language=en}}</ref>

=== JanusGraph ===
{{main|JanusGraph}}
JanusGraph aims to continue open source development of the TitanDB graph database. It is a fork TitanDB, "the distributed graph database that was originally released in 2012 to enable users to find connections among large data sets composed of billions of vertices and edges."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.datanami.com/2017/01/13/janusgraph-picks-titandb-left-off/|title=JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off|date=2017-01-13|website=Datanami|access-date=2017-05-09}}</ref>

=== JS Foundation ===
'''JS Foundation''' (previously known as '''jQuery Foundation''', and according to by-laws '''JSFoundation, Inc''') aims to help development and adoption of important [[JavaScript]] technology. The foundation works to facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community to "foster JavaScript applications and server-side projects by providing best practices and policies."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sdtimes.com/linux-foundation-takes-javascript-community-js-foundation/|title=The Linux Foundation takes on the JavaScript community with the JS Foundation - SD Times|date=2016-10-17|work=SD Times|access-date=2017-05-09|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2016, the '''Dojo Foundation''' merged with jQuery Foundation and subsequently rebranded itself as JS Foundation and became a Linux Foundation project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.jquery.com/2015/09/01/jquery-foundation-and-dojo-foundation-to-merge/|title=jQuery Foundation and Dojo Foundation to Merge|date=1 September 2015|website=Official jQuery Blog|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/08/prweb12931885.htm|title=jQuery Foundation and Dojo Foundation to Merge|last=|first=|date=1 July 2015|work=PRWeb|access-date=2018-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2016/10/17/announcing-the-js-foundation/|title=Announcing the JS Foundation!|date=2016-10-17|work=SitePen|access-date=2018-07-02|language=en-US}}</ref>

Notable projects supported by the JS Foundation include [[Appium]], [[jQuery]], [[Dojo Toolkit]], [[QUnit]], [[ESLint]], and [[Grunt (software)|Grunt]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://js.foundation/announcements/2016/10/17/Linux-Foundation-Unites-JavaScript-Community-Open-Web-Development|title=The Linux Foundation Unites JavaScript Community for Open Web Development - JS Foundation|date=2016-10-17|work=JS Foundation|access-date=2018-07-02|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3131489/javascript/javascript-projects-regroup-under-a-new-foundation.html|title=JavaScript projects regroup under a new foundation|last=Krill|first=Paul|work=InfoWorld|access-date=2018-07-02|language=en}}</ref>

=== Kinetic Open Storage Project ===
The Kinetic Open Storage Project is dedicated to creating an open source standard around Ethernet-enabled, key/value Kinetic devices for accessing their drives. By creating this standard, it expands the available ecosystem of software, hardware, and systems developers. The project is the result of an alliance including major hard drive manufacturers- [[Seagate Technology|Seagate]], [[Toshiba]] and [[Western Digital]]-&nbsp;in addition to Cisco, [[Cleversafe]], Dell, DigitalSense, [[NetApp]], Open vStorage, [[Red Hat]] and [[Scality]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/16/seagate-toshiba-scality-and-others-launch-kinetic-open-storage-platform-for-smart-low-overhead-cloud-object-storage/|title=Seagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-Overhead Cloud Object Storage|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2017-05-16}}</ref>

=== Let's Encrypt ===
[[Let's Encrypt]] is a free and open [[certificate authority]], run for the public’s benefit and provided by the&nbsp;[[Internet Security Research Group]] (ISRG). It was formed in response to the OpenSSL software bug, [[Heartbleed]]. The initiative makes HTTPS certificates free for both large and small sites, thanks to corporate and nonprofit donations. The project has reached many milestones since forming, including contributing to encrypted page loads jumping to 50% in one year. It had taken "20 years to get to 40%".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/01/half-web-now-encrypted-makes-everyone-safer/|title=Half the Web Is Now Encrypted. That Makes Everyone Safer|last=Finley|first=Klint|work=WIRED|access-date=2017-05-16|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Linux Standard Base ===
The [[Linux Standard Base]], or LSB, is a joint project by several [[Linux distribution]]s under the organizational structure of the Linux Foundation to standardize the software system structure, or [[Filesystem Hierarchy Standard|filesystem hierarchy]], used with [[Linux kernel|Linux]] [[operating system]]. The LSB is based on the [[POSIX]] specification, the [[Single UNIX Specification]], and several other open standards, but extends them in certain areas.

According to the LSB:
{{quote|The goal of the LSB is to develop and promote a set of open standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant system even in binary form. In addition, the LSB will help coordinate efforts to recruit software vendors to port and write products for Linux Operating System.}}

The LSB compliance may be certified for a product by a certification procedure.<ref>[http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Certification Certification] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715171638/http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Certification |date=2009-07-15 }}. The Linux Foundation (2006-10-20). Retrieved on 2014-05-23.</ref>

The LSB specifies for example: standard [[library (software)|libraries]], a number of commands and utilities that extend the POSIX standard, the layout of the file system hierarchy, [[run level]]s, the printing system, including [[spooling|spoolers]] such as [[Common Unix Printing System|CUPS]] and tools like [[Foomatic]] and several extensions to the [[X Window System]].

=== Long Term Support Initiative ===
LTSI is a project created/supported by Hitachi, [[LG Electronics]], [[NEC]], [[Panasonic]], [[Qualcomm Atheros]], [[Renesas Electronics]], Samsung Electronics, Sony and Toshiba, hosted at The Linux Foundation. It aims to maintain a common Linux base for use in a variety of consumer electronics products.

=== Node.js Foundation ===
Similar to The Linux Foundation's overall mission of encouraging widespread adoption of Linux and open source technology, The Node.js Foundation exists primarily to accelerate the development of the [[Node.js]] platform. The foundation also operates under an open governance model to heighten participation amongst vendors, developers, and the general Node.js community. Its structure gives enterprise users the assurance of "innovation and continuity without risk."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eweek.com/development/linux-foundation-launches-node.js-foundation|title=Linux Foundation Launches Node.js Foundation|work=eWEEK|access-date=2017-05-17|language=en-US}}</ref> Since launching in 2015, the foundation has seen strong growth, resulting in new initiatives such as the Node Security Platform (a tool allowing continuous security monitoring for Node.js apps) and Node Interactive, "a series of&nbsp;''professional''&nbsp;conferences aimed at today's average Node.js user."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nodesource.com/blog/why-2016-was-the-best-year-ever-for-node-js-node-by-numbers-2016/|title=Why 2016 Was the Best Year Ever for Node.js - Node by Numbers 2016|date=2017-01-31|work=The NodeSource Blog - Node.js Tutorials, Guides, and Updates|access-date=2017-05-17|language=en}}</ref> Node.js reports "3.5 million users and an annual growth rate of 100 percent"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nodejs.org/en/foundation/case-studies/|title=Node.js Foundation Resources {{!}} Node.js|last=Foundation|first=Node.js|website=nodejs.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-17}}</ref> and the foundation is among The Linux Foundation's fastest growing projects.

=== ODPi ===
ODPi provides specifications for Apache Hadoop runtime and operations, test suites, and reference implementations. The project abides by the Apache Software Foundation's role "in the development and governance of upstream projects." The project is the result of a rebranding of the Open Data Platform for Hadoop initiative.

=== ONOS ===

[[ONOS]] (Open Network Operating System) is an open source community with a mission of bringing the promise of [[software-defined networking]] (SDN) to communications service providers in order to make networks more agile for mobile and data center applications with better economics for both users and providers.

=== Open API Initiative (OAI) ===
OAI is committed to standardizing how [[REST API]]<nowiki/>s are described. SmartBear Software has donating the Swagger Specification directly to the initiative.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infoq.com/articles/open-api-initiative-update|title=An Open API Initiative Update|website=InfoQ|access-date=2017-05-17}}</ref>

=== OpenChain ===
OpenChain Project is centered around managing enterprise compliance in open source supply chains. Generally, the project is described as "a community effort to establish best practices for effective management of open source software compliance."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://esj.com/articles/2017/04/28/openchain-spec.aspx|title=Open Source Supply Chain Spec Released -|last=Ramel|first=By David|last2=04/28/2017|website=Enterprise Systems|access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref>

=== Open Container Initiative ===
In 2015, Docker & CoreOS launched OCI in partnership with The Linux Foundation to create a set of industry standards in the open around container formats and runtime.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/opencontainers|title=Open Container Initiative|website=GitHub|language=en|access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref>

=== OpenDaylight ===
[[OpenDaylight]] is the leading open SDN platform, which aims to accelerate the adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in service provider, enterprise and research networks.

=== Open Mainframe Project ===
The [[Open Mainframe Project]] aims to drive harmony across the [[Mainframe computer|mainframe]] community and to developed shared tool sets and resources. The project also endeavors to heighten participation of academic institutions in educating mainframe Linux engineers and developers.

=== OpenMAMA ===
OpenMAMA (Open Middleware Agnostic Messaging API) is a lightweight vendor-neutral integration layer for systems built on top of a variety of [[Message-oriented middleware|message orientated middlewares]].

=== OpenMessaging ===
Announced in October 2017, the goal of OpenMessaging is to act as a vendor-neutral open standard for distributed messaging/stream. The project is supported by Alibaba, Verizon's [[Oath Inc.|Oath]] business unit, and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/unified_communications/linux-foundation-launches-openmessaging-project.html|title=Linux Foundation Launches OpenMessaging Project|website=www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref>

=== OpenPrinting ===
[[File:CUPS-block-diagram.svg|200px|thumb|Linux/Unix CUPS printing architecture.]]

The ''OpenPrinting'' workgroup is a website belonging to the Linux Foundation which provides documentation and software support for printing under Linux.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.openprinting.org/printers|title=Printer List - OpenPrinting - The Linux Foundation|website=www.openprinting.org|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref> Formed as ''LinuxPrinting.org'', in 2006 it became part of the [[Free Standards Group]].

They developed a database that lists a wide variety of printers from various manufacturers. The database allows people to give a report on the support and quality of each printer, and they also give a report on the support given to Linux by each printer vendor. They have also created a [[foomatic]] (formerly cupsomatic) script which plugs into the [[Common Unix Printing System]] (CUPS).

=== OpenSDS ===
OpenSDS is an open source [[software defined storage]] controller. As journalist Swapnil Bhartiya explained for [[CIO magazine|CIO]], it was formed to create "an industry response to address software-defined storage integration challenges with the goal of driving enterprise adoption of open standards." It is supported by storage users/vendors, including Dell, Huawei, Fujitsu, HDS, Vodafone and Oregon State University.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cio.com/article/3151515/infrastructure-storage/dell-emc-joins-the-linux-foundations-opensds-project.html|title=Dell EMC joins The Linux Foundation's OpenSDS Project|last=Bhartiya|first=Swapnil|work=CIO|access-date=2017-05-22|language=en}}</ref>

=== Open vSwitch ===
Originally created at Nicira before moving to VMware (and eventually The Linux Foundation,) OvS is an&nbsp;open source&nbsp;virtual switch supporting standard management interfaces and protocols.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/open-vswitch-moves-vmware-linux-foundation/2016/08/|title=Open vSwitch Moves From VMware to Linux Foundation|date=2016-08-09|work=SDxCentral|access-date=2017-05-19|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== ONAP ===
The Open Network Automation Platform is the result of OPEN-O and Open ECOMP projects merging in April 2017. The platform allows end users to design, manage, and automate services and virtual functions.

=== OPNFV ===
The Open Platform for [[Network function virtualization|Network Function Virtualization]] (NFV) "aims to be a carrier-grade, integrated platform that introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/nfv/definitions/opnfv/|title=What is OPNFV or&nbsp;Open Platform for NFV Project?|work=SDxCentral|access-date=2017-05-23|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2016, the project began an internship program, created a working group and an "End User Advisory Group" (founded by users & the board)

=== PNDA ===
PNDA (Platform for Network Data Analytics) is a platform for scalable network analytics, rounding up data from "multiple sources on a network and works with Apache Spark to crunch the numbers in order to find useful patterns in the data more effectively."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83816.html|title=The Linux Foundation Gives PNDA a Home {{!}} Developers {{!}} LinuxInsider|website=www.linuxinsider.com|language=en|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref>

=== R Consortium ===
The R Consortium is dedicated to expanding the use of [[R (programming language)|R language]] and developing it further. R Consortium works with the R Foundation and other organizations working to broaden the reach of the language. The consortium is supported by a collection of tech industry heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Google, and [[Esri]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/3123783/enterprise-applications/esri-joins-r-consortium.html|title=Esri joins the R Consortium|last=Machlis|first=Sharon|work=Computerworld|access-date=2017-05-24|language=en}}</ref>

=== Real-Time Linux ===
{{redirect|Real-Time Linux|the hard real-time operating system microkernel|RTLinux}}
Real-Time Linux has an overall goal of encouraging widespread adoption of Real Time. It was formed to coordinate efforts to mainline [[PREEMPT RT|Preempt RT]] and assist maintainers in "continuing development work, long-term support and future research of RT."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/start|title=realtime:start [Linux Foundation Wiki]|website=wiki.linuxfoundation.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-30}}</ref>

=== RethinkDB ===
After [[RethinkDB]] announced its shutdown as a business<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html|title=RethinkDB: why we failed|website=www.defstartup.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-30}}</ref> The Linux Foundation announced that it had purchased the intellectual property under its Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, which was then relicensed under the Apache License (ASLv2).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/3166091/open-source-tools/rethinkdb-finds-a-new-home-at-the-linux-foundation.html|title=RethinkDB finds a new home at the Linux Foundation|last=Asay|first=Matt|work=InfoWorld|access-date=2017-05-30|language=en}}</ref> RethinkDB describes itself as "the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rethinkdb.com/faq/|title=Frequently asked questions - RethinkDB|website=www.rethinkdb.com|access-date=2017-05-30}}</ref>

=== SPDX ===
The Software Package Data eXchange (SPDX) project was started in 2010, to create a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with software packages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdx.org|title=SPDX|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref> As part of the project, there is a team that curates the SPDX License List, which defines a list of identifiers for commonly found licenses and exceptions used for open source and other collaborative software.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spdx.org/license-list|title=SPDX License List|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref>

=== SNAS.io ===
Streaming Network Analytics System (project&nbsp;SNAS.io) is an open source framework to collect and track millions of routers, peers, prefixes (routing objects) in&nbsp;[[Real-time computing|real time]]. SNAS.io is a Linux Foundation Project announced in May 2017.

=== Tizen ===
[[Tizen]] is a free and open-source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs.

=== TODO ===
TODO (Talk Openly, Develop Openly) is an open source collective housed under The Linux Foundation. It helps companies interested in open source collaborate better and more efficiently. TODO aims to reach companies and organizations that want to turn out the best open source projects and programs. "The TODO Group reaches across industries to collaborate with open source technical and business leaders to share best practices, tools and programs for building dependable, effective projects for the long term," said Jim Zemlin at Collaboration Summit 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/marrying-open-source-and-the-enterprise/|title=The TODO Group and the Linux Foundation: Marrying open source and the enterprise {{!}} ZDNet|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|work=ZDNet|access-date=2017-06-01|language=en}}</ref>

=== Xen Project ===
[[File:Xen project logo.svg|right|200px]]
{{main|Xen Project}}
The Xen Project team is a global open source community that develops the [[Xen]] Hypervisor, contributes to the Linux PVOPS framework, the Xen® Cloud Platform and Xen® ARM.

=== Yocto Project ===
{{Main|Yocto Project}}
The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.

=== Zephyr Project ===
{{Main|Zephyr (operating system)}}
Zephyr is a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures. It is developed as an open source collaboration project and released under the Apache License 2.0. Zephyr became a project of the Linux Foundation in February 2016.

== Community Stewardship ==
For the Linux kernel community, The Linux Foundation hosts their IT infrastructure and organizes conferences such as the Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference. It also hosts a Technical Advisory Board made up of Linux kernel developers. One of these developers is appointed to sit on The Linux Foundation board.

=== Goodwill partnership ===
In January 2016, The Linux Foundation announced a partnership with Goodwill Central Texas to help hundreds of disadvantaged individuals from underserved communities and a variety of backgrounds get the training they need to start new and lucrative careers in Linux IT.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/124771/20160116/linux-for-everyone-goodwill-partnership-yields-exciting-scholarship-to-teach-you-new-skills.htm|title=Linux For Everyone! Goodwill Partnership Yields Exciting Scholarship To Teach You New Skills|date=2016-01-16|website=Tech Times|access-date=2016-03-14}}</ref>

=== Community Developer Travel Fund ===
To fund deserving developers to accelerate technical problem solving and collaboration in the open source community, The Linux Foundation launched the Community Developer Travel Fund.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2007050701626OSCYDV|title=Linux Today - Linux Foundation Announces Open Source Developer Travel Fund|website=www.linuxtoday.com|access-date=2016-03-15}}</ref> Sponsorships are open to elite community developers with a proven track record of open source development achievement who cannot get funding to attend technical events from employers. Applications are available [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/developer/travel here].

=== Core Infrastructure Initiative ===
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by The Linux Foundation that enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify and fund critical open source projects in need of assistance. In June 2015, the organization announced financial support of nearly $500,000 for three new projects to better support critical security elements of the global information infrastructure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/linux-foundation-funds-internet-security-advances/d/d-id/1321044|title=Linux Foundation Funds Internet Security Advances - InformationWeek|website=InformationWeek|access-date=2016-03-15}}</ref> In May 2016, CII launched its Best Practice Badge program to raise awareness of development processes and project governance steps that will help projects have better security outcomes. In May 2017, CII issued its 100th badge to a passing project.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/news/blogs/2017/09/1000-projects-registered-cii-best-practice-badge-100-badges-granted-and-prizes|title=1,000 Projects Registered for the CII Best Practice Badge, 100 Badges Granted and Prizes!!! {{!}} Core Infrastructure Initiative|website=www.coreinfrastructure.org|language=en|access-date=2017-11-10}}</ref>


=== Open Compliance Program ===
=== Open Compliance Program ===
The Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program provides an array of programs for open source software compliance. The focus in this initiative is to educate and assist developers (and their companies) on license requirements in order to build programs without friction. The program consists primarily of self-administered training modules, but it is also meant to include automated tools to help programmatically identify license compliance issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/linux-foundation-launches-open-compliance-program/|title=Linux Foundation launches Open Compliance Program|last=Merrill|first=Scott|website=TechCrunch|access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref>
The Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program provides an array of programs for open source software licensing compliance. The focus in this initiative is to educate and assist developers (and their companies) on licensing requirements, to make it easier to create new software. The program consists primarily of self-administered training modules, but it is also meant to include automated tools to help programmatically identify license compliance issues.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/linux-foundation-launches-open-compliance-program/ |title=Linux Foundation launches Open Compliance Program |last=Merrill |first=Scott |website=TechCrunch |date=10 August 2010 |access-date=2017-05-19 |archive-date=2017-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111535/https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/linux-foundation-launches-open-compliance-program/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Members ==
== Funding ==
As of June 2018, there are over 1000 members who identify with the ideals and mission of the Linux Foundation and its projects.<ref name="lfmemship">{{Cite news|url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/|title=Corporate Members - The Linux Foundation|work=The Linux Foundation|access-date=2018-06-24|language=en-US}}</ref>


{{Update|section|inaccurate=yes|date=August 2023}}
===Corporate members===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size: 90%;"
!Membership level
!Telecommunications/media companies
!Software developers
!Financial companies
!Other
!Automobile/aeronautical manufacturers
!Component manufacturers
!Device manufacturers
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! Platinum Members (15)<br>{{small|(each donate US-$ 500k annually)}}
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* [[AT&T]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/att-joins-linux-foundation-as-a-platinum-member |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2017-03-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331031530/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/att-joins-linux-foundation-as-a-platinum-member |archivedate=2017-03-31 |df= }}</ref>
* [[Tencent]]<ref>http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/26031/tencent-wird-platin-mitglied-der-linux-foundation.html</ref>
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* [[Fujitsu]]
* [[Google]]<ref>http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/26039/google-wird-platinmitglied-der-linux-foundation.html</ref>
* [[IBM]]
* [[Microsoft]]
* [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]
* [[VMware]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/vmware-upgrades-linux-foundation-membership-platinum/|title=VMware Upgrades Linux Foundation Membership to Platinum - The Linux Foundation|date=2017-10-24|work=The Linux Foundation|access-date=2017-11-10|language=en-US}}</ref>
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* [[Cisco|Cisco Systems]]
* [[Intel]]
* [[Qualcomm]]
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* [[Hitachi]]
* [[Huawei]]
* [[NEC]]
* [[Samsung Electronics]]
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! Gold Members (14)<br>{{small|(each donate US-$ 100k annually)}}
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* [[Alibaba Cloud]]
* [[Baidu]]
* [[Citrix|Citrix Systems]]
* [[Dell EMC]]
* [[DOKY|Doky]]
* [[SUSE]]
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* [[BlackRock]]
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* [[Accenture]]
* [[Facebook]]
* Hart
* [[Oath_Inc|Oath]]
* [[Uber]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eng.uber.com/linux-uber-gold-membership/|title=Uber Joins the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
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* [[Toyota]]
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* [[Renesas Electronics]]
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* [[Panasonic]]
* [[Toshiba]]
|}


Funding for the Linux Foundation comes primarily from its Platinum Members, who pay US$500,000 per year according to Schedule A in LF's bylaws,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/bylaws |title=Schedule A in LF's bylaws |access-date=2012-11-07 |archive-date=2012-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010162350/http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/bylaws |url-status=live }}</ref> adding up to US$4 million. The Gold Members contribute a combined total of US$1.6 million, and smaller members less again.
There are over 500 Silver members that actively donate to the Linux Foundation.


As of April 2014, the foundation collected annual fees worth at least US$6,245,000.
===Affiliates===
*[[Blockchain at Columbia]]
*[[Clemson University]]
* [[Indiana University]]
* Fondazione Inuit
* [[University of Seville|ISA]]
* [[Konkuk University]]
* NXT
* [[Seneca College]]
* Trace Research and Development Center at [[University of Maryland, College Park]]
* [[University of Rome Tor Vergata]]
* [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]
* [[Zhejiang University]]


== Funding ==
=== Use of donations ===
Funding for the Linux Foundation comes primarily from its Platinum Members, paying US$500,000 per year according to [http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/bylaws Schedule A in LF's bylaws], adding up to US$4 million. The Gold Members contribute a combined total of US$1.6 million, and smaller members less again.


By early 2018, the Linux Foundation's website stated that it "uses [donations] in part to help fund the infrastructure and fellows (like [[Linus Torvalds]]) who help develop the Linux kernel."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate/ |title=Donate to The Linux Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180118141628/https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate/ |archive-date=18 January 2018 |access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref>
As of April 2014, the foundation collects annual fees worth at least 6,245,000 USD.


== Events ==
==See also ==
* [[Contributor Covenant]] - code of conduct intended to ensure a safe and harassment-free environment for minorities.
The Linux Foundation [http://events.linuxfoundation.org/ events] are where the creators, maintainers and practitioners of the most important open source projects meet. Linux Foundation events in 2017 will attract nearly 25,000 developers, maintainers, system administrators, thought leaders, business executives and other industry professionals from more than 4,000 organizations across 85 countries. Many open source projects also co-locate their events at The Linux Foundation events to take advantage of the cross-community collaboration with projects in the same industry.
==References==

2017 events cover various trends in open source, including big data, cloud native, containers, IoT, networking, security, and more.

== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
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* {{Official website}}
* {{Official website}}
** [https://training.linuxfoundation.org/ Linux Foundation Training]
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{{FLOSS}}
* [http://www.linux.com Linux.com]
* [https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/ Linux Foundation Publications]
* Linux Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users


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The Linux Foundation
Predecessor
Formation2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Type501(c)(6) organization
PurposeOpen-source software
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.
Membership
1,000+ corporate members[1]
Employees
150
Websitewww.linuxfoundation.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects.[2]

Background

The Linux Foundation was formed as a merger with Free Standards Group in 2007. It was initially founded to standardize and promote the open source operating system kernel Linux as Open Source Development Labs in 2000. [3] The foundation has since evolved beyond Linux to become a "foundation of foundations" that hosts a variety of projects spanning topics such as cloud, networking, blockchain, and hardware.[4] The foundation also hosts annual educational events among the Linux community, including the Linux Kernel Developers Summit and the Open Source Summit.[5][6]

Projects

As of September 2015, the total economic value of development costs of Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects was estimated at $5 billion.[7]

Project Name Description
AllJoyn AllJoyn is an open source software framework that allows compatible devices and applications find each other, communicate and collaborate across the boundaries of product category, platform, brand, and connection type.
Automotive Grade Linux Automotive Grade Linux is a collaborative open source project developing a Linux-based, open platform for the connected car that can serve as the de facto standard for the industry. Although initially focused on In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), the AGL roadmap includes instrument cluster, heads up display, telematics and autonomous driving.[8][better source needed] The goals of AGL are to provide:
  • An automotive-focused core Linux operating system stack that meets common and shared requirements of the automotive ecosystem
  • A transparent, collaborative and open environment for Automotive OEMs, Tier One suppliers, and their semiconductor and software vendors to create in-vehicle software
  • A collective voice for working with other open source projects and developing new open source solutions
  • An embedded Linux distribution that enables rapid prototyping for developers new to Linux or teams with prior open source experience[9]
Carrier Grade Linux Carrier Grade Linux is a set of specifications which detail standards of availability, scalability, manageability, and service response characteristics which must be met in order for Linux kernel-based operating system to be considered carrier grade.
Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application platform as a service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution.
Core Infrastructure Initiative The Core Infrastructure Initiative was announced on 25 April 2014 in the wake of Heartbleed to fund and support free and open-source software projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet.
Data Plane Development Kit The Data Plane Development Kit provides a set of libraries and network interface controller polling-mode drivers to accelerate CPU architecture-running packet processing workloads.
EdgeX Foundry EdgeX Foundry is a vendor-neutral open-source platform providing a common framework for industrial IoT edge computing.
FinOps Foundation The FinOps Foundation is dedicated to advancing people who practice the discipline of cloud financial management through best practices, education, and standards.[10]
FRRouting FRRouting is an IP routing protocol suite for Unix and Linux platforms.
Hyperledger The Hyperledger project is a global, open source effort based around advancing cross-industry blockchain technologies.
IoTivity The IoTivity is an open source framework created to standardize inter-device connections for the IoT.
JanusGraph JanusGraph is an open source, graph database supporting global graph data analytics, reporting, and ETL.
LF AI & Data The LF AI & Data Foundation is a project of The Linux Foundation that supports open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and data open source projects.[11]
Linux Standard Base The Linux Standard Base was a project by several Linux distributions to standardize the software system structure.
ONOS Open Network Operating System is an open source community with the goal of bringing software-defined networking to communications service providers in order to make networks more agile for mobile and data center applications.
OpenAPI Specification OpenAPI Specification is a specification for a machine-readable interface definition language for describing, producing, consuming and visualizing web services.
OpenBMC The OpenBMC project is a collaborative open-source project whose goal is to produce an open source implementation of the Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) Firmware Stack.[12][13]
OpenChain The OpenChain Project aims to define effective open source software compliance in software supply chains. A key output is the ISO/IEC 5230 standard.
Open Container Initiative In 2015, Docker & CoreOS launched the Open Container Initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation to create a set of industry standards in the open around container formats and runtime.[14]
OpenDaylight Project OpenDaylight is the leading open SDN platform, which aims to accelerate the adoption of Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization in service provider, enterprise and research networks.
OpenJS Foundation OpenJS Foundation hosts projects and funds activities to help healthy growth of the JavaScript and web ecosystem as a whole.
Open Source Security Foundation The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) works towards a collaborative effort to improving the security of the open-source software ecosystem.[15]
Open Mainframe Project The Open Mainframe Project is a Collaborative Project to encourage the use of Linux-based operating systems and open source software on mainframe computers.
OpenPrinting OpenPrinting develops IPP-based printing technology for Linux- and Unix-based operating systems.
Open vSwitch Originally created at Nicira before moving to VMware (and eventually the Linux Foundation), OvS is an open source virtual switch supporting standard management interfaces and protocols.[16]
ONAP The Open Network Automation Platform is the result of OPEN-O and Open ECOMP projects merging in April 2017. The platform allows end users to design, manage, and automate services and virtual functions.
OPNFV The Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) "aims to be a carrier-grade, integrated platform that introduces new products and services to the industry more quickly."[17] In 2016, the project began an internship program, created a working group and an "End User Advisory Group"
Overture Maps Foundation In mid-December 2022, the foundation announced the launch of a new mapping collaboration, the Overture Maps Foundation. Its founding members were Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft and TomTom.[18][19][20] It is intended to be complementary to the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap (OSM) project and the foundation encourages members to contribute data directly to OSM.[21]
RethinkDB After RethinkDB announced its shutdown as a business,[22] the Linux Foundation announced that it had purchased the intellectual property under its Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, which was then relicensed under the Apache License (ASLv2).[23] RethinkDB describes itself as "the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web."[24]
RISC-V The RISC-V International association[25] is chartered to standardize and promote the open RISC-V instruction set architecture together with its hardware and software ecosystem for use in all computing devices.
seL4 seL4 is the only microkernel in existence which has been developed using formal verification techniques. It belongs to the L4 microkernel family and was, like the other L4 microkernels, designed to attain great security and performance.[26]
Servo Servo is a browser engine developed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language.[27] It was originally developed by Mozilla and later donated to the Linux Foundation.
Software Package Data Exchange The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) project was started in 2010, to create a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with software packages.[28] As part of the project, there is a team that curates the SPDX License List, which defines a list of identifiers for commonly found licenses and exceptions used for open source and other collaborative software.[29]
Tizen Tizen is a free and open-source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs.
Xen Project The Xen Project team is a global open source community that develops the Xen Hypervisor, contributes to the Linux PVOPS framework, the Xen® Cloud Platform, and Xen® ARM.
Yocto Project The Yocto Project[30] is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.
Zephyr Project Zephyr is a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures. It is developed as an open source collaboration project and released under the Apache License 2.0. Zephyr became a project of the Linux Foundation in February 2016.
Open Mobile Hub Open Mobile Hub (OMH) ecosystem initiative launched in September 2023 is a open source services framework platform designed to simplify and enhance mobile app development across diverse environments. OMH streamlines app development by providing a single set of APIs that can support any Android, iOS and HarmonyOS device with OMH plugins to support account login systems, mapping services systems, and wide range backend services creating greater compatibility and interoperability of apps by developers.[31]

Community stewardship

For the Linux kernel community, the Linux Foundation hosts its IT infrastructure and organizes conferences such as the Linux Kernel Summit and Linux Plumbers Conference. It also hosts a Technical Advisory Board made up of Linux kernel developers. One of these developers is appointed to sit on the Linux Foundation board.

Goodwill partnership

In January 2016, the Linux Foundation announced a partnership with Goodwill Central Texas to help hundreds of disadvantaged individuals from underserved communities and a variety of backgrounds get the training they need to start careers in Linux IT.[32]

Community Specification

In July 2020, the Linux Foundation announced an initiative allowing open source communities to create Open Standards using tools and methods inspired by open source developers.[33]

Core Infrastructure Initiative

The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a project managed by the Linux Foundation that enables technology companies, industry stakeholders and esteemed developers to collaboratively identify and fund critical open source projects in need of assistance. In June 2015, the organization announced financial support of nearly $500,000 for three new projects to better support critical security elements of the global information infrastructure.[34] In May 2016, CII launched its Best Practice Badge program to raise awareness of development processes and project governance steps that will help projects have better security outcomes. In May 2017, CII issued its 100th badge to a passing project.[35]

Community Data License Agreement (CDLA)

See also: Open Database License

Introduced in October 2017,[36] the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) is a legal framework for sharing data.[37] There are two initial CDLA licenses:

  • The CDLA-Sharing license was designed to embody the principles of copyleft in a data license. It puts terms in place to ensure that downstream recipients can use and modify that data, and are also required to share their changes to the data.
  • The CDLA-Permissive agreement is similar to permissive open source licenses in that the publisher of data allows anyone to use, modify and do what they want with the data with no obligations to share changes or modifications.

Linux.com

Further information: Linux.com

On March 3, 2009, the Linux Foundation announced that they would take over the management of Linux.com from its previous owners, SourceForge, Inc.[38]

The site was relaunched on May 13, 2009, shifting away from its previous incarnation as a news site to become a central source for Linux tutorials, information, software, documentation and answers across the server, desktop/netbook, mobile, and embedded areas. It also includes a directory of Linux software and hardware.[39]

Much like Linux itself, Linux.com plans to rely on the community to create and drive content and conversation.

Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH)

In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Linux Foundation announced the LFPH,[40] a program dedicated to advancing and supporting the virus contact tracing work led by Google and Apple and their Bluetooth notification systems. The LFPH is focusing its efforts on public health applications, including the effort's first initiative: a notification app intended for governments wanting to launch their privacy-focused exposure notification networks. As of today, LFPH hosts two contact-tracing apps.[41]

LF Climate Finance Foundation

In September 2020, The Linux Foundation announced the LF Climate Finance Foundation (LFCF), a new initiative "to encourage investment in AI-enhanced open source analytics to address climate change."[42] LFCF plans to build a platform that will utilize open-source open data to help the financial investment, NGO, and academia sectors to help better model companies’ exposure to climate change.[43] Allianz, Amazon, Microsoft, and S&P Global will be the initiative's founding members.[44]

LF Energy

Main article: LF Energy

LF Energy is an initiative launched by the Linux Foundation in 2018 to improve the power grid.[45][46]

Linus Torvalds at LinuxCon North America 2016

Training and certification

The Linux Foundation Training Program features instructors and content from the leaders of the Linux developer and open-source communities.[47]

Participants receive Linux training that is vendor-neutral and created with oversight from leaders of the Linux development community. The Linux Foundation's online and in-person training programs aim to deliver broad, foundational knowledge and networking opportunities.

In March 2014, the Linux Foundation and edX partnered to offer a free massive open online class titled Introduction to Linux.[48] This was the first in a series of ongoing free offerings from both organizations whose current catalogue of MOOCs include Intro to DevOps, Intro to Cloud Foundry and Cloud Native Software Architecture, Intro to Apache Hadoop, Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, and Intro to OpenStack.[49]

In December 2015, the Linux Foundation introduced a self-paced course designed to help prepare administrators for the OpenStack Foundation's Certified OpenStack Administrator exam.[50]

As part of a partnership with Microsoft, it was announced in December 2015 that the Linux on Azure certification would be awarded to individuals who pass both the Microsoft Exam 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) and the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam.[51]

In early 2017, at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit, it was announced that the Linux Foundation would begin offering an Inclusive Speaker Orientation course in partnership with the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The course is designed to give participants "practical skills to promote inclusivity in their presentations."[52]

In September 2020, the Linux Foundation released a free serverless computing training course with CNCF. It is taught by Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS.[53]

Among many other organizations with similar offerings, The Linux Foundation has reported a 40% increase in demand for their online courses in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting social-distancing measures.[54]

Patent Commons Project

The patent commons consists of all patented software which has been made available to the open source community. For software to be considered to be in the commons the patent owner must guarantee that developers will not be sued for infringement, though there may be some restrictions on the use of the patented code. The concept was first given substance by Red Hat in 2001 when it published its Patent Promise.[55]

The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15, 2005, by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). The core of the project is an online patent commons reference library aggregating and documenting information about patent-related pledges and other legal solutions directed at the open-source software community. As of 2015, the project listed 53 patents.[56]

Open Compliance Program

The Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program provides an array of programs for open source software licensing compliance. The focus in this initiative is to educate and assist developers (and their companies) on licensing requirements, to make it easier to create new software. The program consists primarily of self-administered training modules, but it is also meant to include automated tools to help programmatically identify license compliance issues.[57]

Funding

Funding for the Linux Foundation comes primarily from its Platinum Members, who pay US$500,000 per year according to Schedule A in LF's bylaws,[58] adding up to US$4 million. The Gold Members contribute a combined total of US$1.6 million, and smaller members less again.

As of April 2014, the foundation collected annual fees worth at least US$6,245,000.

Use of donations

By early 2018, the Linux Foundation's website stated that it "uses [donations] in part to help fund the infrastructure and fellows (like Linus Torvalds) who help develop the Linux kernel."[59]

See also

  • Contributor Covenant - code of conduct intended to ensure a safe and harassment-free environment for minorities.

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