Core Infrastructure Initiative
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The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) was a project of the Linux Foundation to fund and support free and open-source software projects that are critical to the functioning of the Internet and other major information systems. The project was announced on 24 April 2014 in the wake of Heartbleed, a critical security bug in OpenSSL that is used on millions of websites.
Core Infrastructure Initiative | |
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Mission statement | "To fund open source projects that are in the critical path for core computing functions." |
Commercial? | No |
Founder | Jim Zemlin |
Established | 24 April 2014 (2014-04-24)[1] |
Funding | By donations |
Status | Superseded by the OpenSSF |
OpenSSL is among the first software projects to be funded by the initiative after it was deemed underfunded, receiving only about $2,000 per year in donations.[1] The initiative will sponsor two full-time OpenSSL core developers.[2] In September 2014, the Initiative offered assistance to Chet Ramey, the maintainer of bash, after the Shellshock vulnerability was discovered.[3]
The CII has since been superseded by the Open Source Security Foundation.[4]