[1] Over the years, the Alliance's membership has grown to over 500 companies, including the likes of Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, Yandex, Ikea, and Samsung SmartThings.
Adopter members are allowed access to completed CSA specifications and standards, like Zigbee.
The organization publishes application profiles that allow multiple original equipment manufacturer (OEM) vendors to create interoperable products.
The requirements for membership in the Alliance cause problems for free-software developers working with Zigbee because the annual fee conflicts with the GNU General Public Licence.
[12] However, the main Matter SDK is licensed under Apache 2.0 alongside the Typescript and Rust implementations.