The OpenChain India Work Group held its third meeting on the 30th of October 2020. Check out the full recording and join our future activity via our dedicated mailing list.
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Balakrishna @ Bosch led the revival of the OpenChain Education Work Group with two meetings exploring the creation of online training for the International Standard for open source license compliance. Catch up and contribute via these recordings and by subscribing to our list.
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ITAM Channel, part of the ITAMOrg international membership organization for ITAM Professionals, is hosting a webinar covering OpenChain on the 12th of November.
In this webinar you will hear about how open source is used in the supply chain, the risks associated with open source and strategies to manage this. We will also discuss the latest standards such as the new ISO standard being published from the OpenChain Project with support from many of the larger vendors incl. Arm, Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm.
Event speakers are Martin Callinan of Source Code Control and Shane Coughlan, General Manager at OpenChain
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On October 28th at 19:30 GMT Shane Coughlan spoke at Open Source Summit Europe 2020. His talk explored the process of building and deploying the first Linux Foundation ISO standard in fourteen years in collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation. It explained why the evolution from de facto industry standard to formal standardization was important for open source compliance in the context of areas like sales, procurement and M&A.
DLA Piper will be holding their next OSS In-house Counsel Discussion from 5 pm to 6:30 pm PST on November 11, 2020.
The legal issues in open source software are becoming more complex, with new considerations arising rapidly. This event will provide a venue managed by and for in-house counsel where they can discuss open source legal issues under the Chatham House Rule.
It will host the following discussions
1. Open Source Software Compliance in Containers by Scott Peterson of Redhat, Inc.
2. OpenChain as an ISO Standard by Shane Coughlan of the Linux Foundation
There will also be the usual summary of selected recent issues by Mark Radcliffe and Chris Stevenson of DLA Piper.
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- Contact the General Manager of OpenChain.
The OpenChain Project has a global community of organizations working together to make open source compliance faster, easier and more effective. We have local work teams in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India and Germany, as well as international work teams covering automotive, reference tooling and education.
With physical meetings on pause due to COVID-19 we are providing enhanced support for remote meetings to our work teams, to organizations and to people who want to make use of remote conferencing. Our Zoom room provides you with video chat for up to 100 people, screen sharing and other features to run meetings, webinars and round tables. There is no cost and there are no restrictions to use as long as the topic is open source compliance.
You can book a meeting at the link below. Each meeting slot is 30 minutes. Priority is for OpenChain meetings, so other compliance discussion bookings may be adjusted if there is overlap. We do not envision this happening often.
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Please note: the organizer or host should schedule a meeting on our system and then invite their attendees separately. Our booking system is just for letting organizers know which slots are available. All meetings have video and audio recorded by our system for potential later review.
The annual Open Source Summit Japan + Automotive Linux Summit will be held virtually December 2-4 on the Japan Standard Time Zone (UTC+09:00).
On December 4th at 9:40 Shane Coughlan (OpenChain, General Manager) will give a keynote on how OpenChain became the ISO/IEC International Standard for open source compliance.
This is the first formal International Standard to emerge from Linux Foundation in 14 years and the first International Standard fostered by the Joint Development Foundation. However, as the keynote will explain, it is far from the last.
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inwinSTACK, a Taiwan-based provider of private, public and hybrid cloud technology, is the latest organization to announce an OpenChain conformant program. inwinSTACK has been contributing in open source community, providing services/products with open source software. Participating in workgroups of Linux Foundation among AI, Edge and Hyperledger. “OpenChain Conformance also present our commitment to open source compliance”, says Joeseph Wang, Sales VP, InwinSTACK Technologies Inc. “Licensing compliance give indemnification for our customers free from intellectual property lawsuit. We have enforced OpenChain Conformance throughout in internal CI/CD process. Also planning to pass ISO/IEC DIS 5203 in the future. Our long term policy will keep devoting in open source communities”
“We are delighted to welcome inwinSTACK to our community of conformance for several reasons,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their position as a cloud provider helps to underscore the utility of OpenChain in this space, where our International Standard for open source compliance has a positive impact on resource use, time to market, and effective intellection property management. Secondly, it is great to welcome another company based in Taiwan to our community, underlining our vibrant, growing local community. We look forward to working with inwinSTACK and many of their peers in the coming years.”
October 29, 2020 – The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds as the latest law firm to join our global Partner Program. Their experience and support will be available to help support open source software user companies during the exciting period of the ISO/IEC JTC1 publication of our International Standard for open source license compliance.
“Law firms play a critical role in supporting companies using open source throughout the globe,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our collaboration with Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is perfectly timed to support a key milestone in the OpenChain Project; the approval of our International Standard for publication via ISO/IEC JTC1. We look forward to a long, productive relationship with our latest partner in the months and years ahead.”
“We are thrilled to be a Linux Foundation OpenChain Partner,” says Giovanna Fessenden, Counsel at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds. “While open source software is invaluable to software innovation, one of the challenges in software supply chains is ensuring that the open source license requirements for source code are met in a timely and effective manner. Widespread compliance with the OpenChain ISO standard will address these challenges. As adherence to the OpenChain ISO standard gains momentum in the software industry, I expect to see even more growth in investment in software innovation, as well as increased industry collaboration in the development of software technology. Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds values this unique opportunity to work with the Linux Foundation OpenChain Project to develop and share best practices for open source compliance. Our firm’s goal is to ultimately help build trust and legal certainty in the larger open source community.”
Mary Lou Wakimura, Principal at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, stated, “As an OpenChain Partner, we look forward to instilling best practices for open source compliance which dovetails with our services and advice to clients in the software technology space. We look forward to continuing the work of the Linux Foundation OpenChain Project in this important next stage of industry adoption of the OpenChain ISO standard.”
About Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds
Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds is an internationally renowned law firm devoted to the practice of intellectual property law. The firm specializes in patents, trademarks, intellectual property litigation, post-grant proceedings, copyrights, licensing, due diligence, opinions, trade secrets, open source license compliance and audits, and intellectual property counseling. The firm’s legal staff provides comprehensive intellectual property expertise in a wide range of technical areas such as biotechnology, chemistry, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, physics, optics, nanotechnology, and electrical, chemical and mechanical engineering. Visit hbsr.com for more information.
About OpenChain Project
OpenChain began when a group of open source compliance professionals met in a conference lounge and chatted about how so much duplicative, redundant open source license compliance work was being done inefficiently in the software supply chain simply. They realized that while each company did the same work behind the scenes in a different manner the output for downstream recipients could not realistically be relied on because there was no visibility into the process that generated the output.
The answer the early principles of this discussion arrived at was to standardize open source compliance, make it transparent and build trust across the ecosystem. The project began as outreach to the community with the idea of a new standard for open source license compliance with slides titled, “When Conformity is Innovative.” A growing community quickly recognized the value of this approach and contributed to the nascent collaboration soon named The OpenChain Project.
Shane Coughlan (OpenChain Project) and Foteini Papiri (FossID) will give a “State of the Union” of the International Standard for open source compliance and discuss how standards like this create business value. Webinar participants will learn about adoption of the OpenChain standard in any organization, how the community has used it so far, and where it fits into managing procurement across the supply chain in the future.
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