Significant Open Source Foundations

SmartDeviceLink (SDL) Consortium
2/15/2017

Promotes SmartDeviceLink, a standard set of protocols and messages that connect applications on a smartphone to a vehicle head unit.

Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) Working Group
10/28/2015

Develops, maintains, and promotes the SPDX specification.

SourceForge.net
10/28/2015

Provides free services to Open Source developers.

The Apache Software Foundation
8/09/2024

Supports numerous open-source software projects

Tizen Association
11/04/2015

Develops and promotes the industry role of Tizen and its mobile market presence *Now hosted by the Linux Foundation

UnitedLinux
11/04/2015

Developed a common base Linux distribution for enterprise use *Dissolved in 2004

X Consortium
11/11/2015

Developed the Unix X Window System and related standards *Merged with The Open Group in 1996; spun out later as X.org

X.org
1/01/2019

Maintains the X Windows system, a Unix-based interface.

XFree86 Project, Inc.
11/11/2015

Promoted XFree86, an open source X11-based desktop infrastructure *Dissolved in 2003

Xiph.Org Foundation
11/11/2015

Develops and promotes open source, multimedia related projects.