Global affiliations

The Eclipse Foundation provides individuals and organizations like OpenSSL Foundation with a mature, scalable, and vendor-neutral environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. As a member of the Eclipse Foundation we are able to take part in working groups that affect areas related to OpenSSL Foundation’s mission such as security, privacy and open source.

Founded in 2005, Open Invention Network (OIN) is the world’s only institution dedicated to protecting open source innovation from patent attacks and costly litigation. OpenSSL Library is listed in OIN’s Linux System Definition. Any OIN member (which includes many major corporations) gets access to OIN’s patents and licenses royalty-free and in exchange each member agrees not to assert its own patents against Linux (including OpenSSL). This protects OpenSSL and its users from aggressive patent practices.

In 2025, the United Nations set forth a set of eight guidelines designed to promote collaboration and the adoption of open-source technologies within the UN and globally. We’ve endorsed these principles, which capture our existing ways of working.

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) is a 501c3 tax-exempt US nonprofit that provides a range of services to support open source software and hardware organizations. In August 2025, SPI accepted OpenSSL Foundation as a sponsored project, which allows us to carry out some of our work under the auspices of SPI.

The CVE Program identifies, defines, and catalogs publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. As a CVE Partner organization, we publish CVE Records to communicate consistent descriptions of vulnerabilities.