OASIS: New IP Policy Makes Room for Open Source

In a nod to the open source community, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has revised its intellectual property (IP) policy to include a non-assertion mode, which means standards contributors must forego royalty claims or license rights.

Indeed, the board of directors of OASIS has unanimously approved a revision to its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy, OASIS officials said…