Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history, establishing the leading professional network of Open Source legal experts and aligning stakeholders to launch both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to Open Source.
Shane has extensive knowledge of Open Source governance, internal process development, supply chain management and community building. His experience includes engagement with the enterprise, embedded, mobile and automotive industries.
A legal assessor might be a lawyer or a special trained person who cares about licenses which apply to applications that include OSS and/or other third party software.
This epic describes briefly the role, responsibilities, tasks and how the software architect interacts with the toolchain in order to accomplish his tasks in an efficient way.
This epic describes briefly the role, responsibilities, tasks and how the software developer interacts with the toolchain in order to accomplish his tasks in an efficient way.
This epic describes briefly the role, responsibilities, tasks and how the compliance assistant interacts with the toolchain in order to accomplish his tasks in an efficient way.
A ECC expert (export control and customs) might be a lawyer or a special trained person in export control regulations who cares about all export control classifications for applications which are delivered that include OSS and/or other third party software.
During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.
OpenChain Japan Work Group: Republishing the Advent Calendar
During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.
OpenChain 2.0 in French The OpenChain Specification 2.0, the latest version of our industry standard for open source compliance, is now available in French. This official translation provides a reference to assist with understanding and engagement throughout companies. Read more here: https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/03/23/openchain-2-0-in-french
OpenChain @ GitHub
The OpenChain Project has a substantial presence on GitHub. We use our space to store core documents like the project charter and specification, our growing library of reference material under CC-0 licensing, and other material like our project image assets. This allows our global community to quickly access, share and improve all aspects of our work. Find out more: https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2020/03/23/openchain-on-github-march-2020
OpenChain Reference Library Relaunched – Discovery and Translation First The OpenChain Project has a comprehensive reference library covering all aspects of open source compliance management, including numerous resources related to training, policy and process content. This official and community-sourced reference material has been extensively reordered to allow easier discovery of content and to provide a multi-language first approach. https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2020/03/04/openchain-reference-library-relaunched-discovery-and-translation-first
Yoma Bank Announces the Latest OpenChain Conformant Program The OpenChain Project is delighted to highlight that Yoma Bank is the latest organization to have a publicly announced OpenChain conformant program. Yoma Bank joins many other companies from a diverse range of market sectors collaborating to make open source compliance faster, more effective and more efficient. Find out more: https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/03/05/yoma-bank-announces-the-latest-openchain-conformant-program
The recent news regarding MOXA’s decision to become an OpenChain Platinum Member has spread through Chinese and Korean language media. Naturally these are very important geographic and linguistic areas for us. We hope these stories will be useful for our community in discussions inside companies, with other companies, and with the broader technology community.
Oliver, chair of our reference tooling work group, has started to draft best practices for license complaint containers. Have some thoughts? Want to help?
GTC Law and FOSSID, two official partners of the OpenChain Project, will host a webinar on March 26th 2020 at 9:30 am EST that covers open source software and code snippets: the benefits, the pratfalls, and how to use FOSSID tools to manage compliance and mitigate risks.
This webinar will dive into OpenChain and will explain the value proposition for businesses leveraging open source software in products or services.
Shane Coughlan, General Manager of the Linux Foundation OpenChain Project, Keith Bergelt, OIN CEO, take a look at open source expectation & Open Source Software (OSS)-related behavior in the supply chain ecosystem for virtually every business and every industry in this week’s Open Source For You magazine.
The founders of AlektoMetis, Prof. Dr. Andreas Bärwald and Nicole Pappler have been closely connected to the OpenChain project for several years. After successfully creating and launching the OpenChain 3rd party certification during their time at the TÜV SÜD Group, they now continue to provide software centric consulting and assessment services with AlektoMetis.
“We are very happy to be a partner of the OpenChain project.” says Prof. Dr. Andreas Bärwald, CEO of AlektoMetis. “This will enable us to continue our longstanding successful partnership in our new professional home and to work with our customers and cooperation partners. Open Source related topics are of increasing importance for our customers. Considering that nowadays added value is implemented mainly by software, competence with respect to software becomes increasingly important to companies of all sizes and industries. Including open source licensed components allows companies to concentrate on the creation of value by their own intellectual property while relying on open source for standard tasks. This requires a suitable FOSS governance process in the companies. On the basis of OpenChain we can support our customers exactly here”.
“Building a trusted supply chain depends greatly on having trusted partners,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We need to know that our fellow user companies have adopted or are adopting the key requirements of quality open source compliance programs. We need to know that there is reference material to help them in this process. Lastly, we need to know that there is strong support infrastructure to ensure they can get solid legal, professional and certification advice as needed. Nicole and Andreas have long had a substantial presence and contribution to the OpenChain Project on the latter point, and our new official partnership is another milestone in building out this international standard.”
“The OpenChain community is quite a welcoming and inspiring place and I’m really excited to be part of the OpenChain partner network, seeing it growing and looking for the time to come.” Says Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis representative in the OpenChain project. “Both engineering, quality management and legal experts are working together to create guidance and clear criteria to enable the license compliant usage of and contribution to open source projects for every industry player, no matter what size and background. It will be my very pleasure to contribute to OpenChain to see the three pillars of OpenChain certification – self certification, independent compliance assessment and 3rd party certification – grow into a most useful policy in the supply and release chain.”
About AlektoMetis
AlektoMetis, founded in 2019, offers consulting and assessment services in the areas of functional safety, software quality and processes. The associated AlektoMetis Academy will offer extensive online and offline seminars starting in the second half of 2020. Nicole Pappler represents AlektoMetis in the open source working group of the German IT industry association Bitkom, where she is a member of the board. Furthermore AlektoMetis supports the German working group of the OpenChain project.
SAN FRANCISCO MARCH 24, 2020 – Today the
OpenChain Project welcomes Lex Pan Law and Opsequio as our latest official
partners. Lex Pan Law, a technology law firm based in the United States, has a long
and deep background in intellectual property and free and open source
licensing, as well as other associated corporate and business law issues like
securing patent, copyright and trademark protection, IP portfolio strategy and
development, strategic technology licensing, IP asset assessment and mergers
& acquisition.
Opsqeuio (www.opsequ.io), a virtual open source program office (OSPO) services
company also based in the United States, has a long background in setting up
and running software provenance and open source compliance programs in high
technology organizations, and its services are designed to provide consultation
and coverage for small-to-medium-sized organizations not yet ready to set up
their own internal OSPO, and supplemental support for larger companies which
have an existing OSPO.
Their partnership with the OpenChain Project marks another milestone in building out global support for user companies adopting our industry standard for open source compliance and provides a local resource for companies and organizations in the Pacific Northwest region of North America looking to adopt OpenChain practices or to become OpenChain conformant.
“OpenChain provides a wealth of resources for companies and organizations looking to adopt industry-leading practices around software compliance,” says McCoy Smith, Founding Attorney of Lex Pan Law and Founder of Opsequio. “As someone who has followed the development of OpenChain as a standard and as a community since its inception, I am thrilled for Lex Pan Law and Opsequio to become part of that community, and to help our clients and customers to take full advantage of everything OpenChain has to offer.”
“As OpenChain has seen increased adoption
globally there has been a steady push for expanding the network of support
available for user companies refining their compliance programs,” says Shane
Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our relationship with Lex Pan Law and
Opsequio continues to bolster our position in both the North American and
global market, particularly in the growing tech hubs in the Pacific Northwest, and
it also formalizes our cooperative relationship in a manner aligned with the
project’s strategic goals. I am looking forward to close collaboration with Lex
Pan Law and Opsequio as we support our user companies in the global rollout of
the OpenChain standard in the supply chain and the acceptance of OpenChain as
an ISO standard later this year.”
About Lex Pan Law & Opsequio
Lex Pan Law (www.lexpan.law) is a full-service technology
and intellectual property law firm, based in Portland, Oregon, USA, with over
35 years of experience in virtually every facet of technology and law,
including extensive experience and community contacts in the free and open
source licensing world (including software, hardware, and content). Opsequio (www.opsequ.io) offers virtual open source
program office services, and has close to 20 years of experience in setting up,
managing, and growing an open source program office in a multinational Fortune
50 technology company. Both organizations are led by McCoy Smith, a leading
speaker and author on intellectual property issues and their intersection with
free and open source licensing. He is on
the editorial board of the Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society
(www.jolts.world).
About the OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project builds trust in open
source by making open source license compliance simpler and more
consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of
requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The
OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open
source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of
the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance
allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The
result is that open source license compliance becomes more
predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the
software supply chain. More information can be found at www.openchainproject.org.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of
choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build
ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry
adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the
hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology
investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today
provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project,
which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any
one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a
list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark
usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage.
Linux is a registered trademark
of Linus Torvalds.
The OpenChain Specification 2.0, the latest version of our industry standard for open source compliance, is now available in French. This official translation provides a reference to assist with understanding and engagement throughout companies.
OpenChain 2.0 is the latest version of our standard and it is functionally identical the the forthcoming ISO standard. This means that any company that conforms with OpenChain 2.0 will also be conformant with the ISO standard on release.
Big Thanks To Our Local Contributors
Tristan FAURE
Bruno GRASSET
Benjamin JEAN
Laurent JOUBERT
Lionel LOUBET
Camille MOULIN
Harmonie VO VIET ANH
Special thanks to Camille, Tristan and Benjamin for finalizing this version.
