The OpenMI Association as a legal body will ensure and safeguard the copyrights and intellectual property rights (IPR) of the OpenMI Standard and any related products created by the OpenMI Association. It has registered the logo and name "OpenMI" as a trademark and has had the domain names (www.openMI.org and www.openMI.com) registered.
The OpenMI Association will:
- maintain, develop and release the OpenMI Standard and provide access to it through its website. The Standard will be released under the Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL).
- ensure that there is always at least one Software Develop Kit (SDK) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) available under suitable open source licence conditions.
- encourage third parties to develop, deliver and maintain other versions of the SDK and GUI, or any other tools that will simplify the migration (making modelling components compliant), linking and running of linked models. Those tools will remain the property of their respective developers.
- impose no restrictions on the use of the OpenMI for research or commercial purposes, and will not impose any royalty charges or licence fees.
The OpenMI Association website is supported by the European Commission under the 