The Open Invention Network (OIN) appearantly protects Linux against legal attacks, by having patents and granting a free licence to them to anyone who doesn't legally attack Linux. Personally I have my doubts about this because OIN is creted by... companies, not by the Linux community. But they have a list on their site that defines "Linux". In the list are a lot of open source applications. However it's not a list of all open source applications. So it doesn't really protect free software, just a small part of it. Does anyone know if it's possible for other open source projects, that are not in the list currently, to get in the list?

The list looks like an extract of the package listing from various large distro's. I think your best shot would be to get your software included in their repositories. So, get your project in Red Hat, Suse, etcetera and it will probably appear on that list automagically.

Why don't you send OIN an e-mail?