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Shane Coughlan

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.

Jul 14

Element Announces OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program

By Featured, News

About Element

Element is a decentralized and flexible communications platform, built on the Matrix open standard, that gives people and organizations the independence to communicate with confidence. Learn more: https://element.io

About the OpenChain Project:

The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.

About The Linux Foundation:

The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Check Out The Publicly Announced Community of Conformance:

Jul 14

Woven by Toyota Completes OpenChain ISO 5230 Re-Conformance

By Featured, News

Woven by Toyota, a company designed to drive the evolution of mobility to enhance safety, peace of mind, fulfillment and opportunity for all, has completed its periodic re-conformance to the OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 specification. ISO/IEC 5230 is the international standard for open source license compliance process management, and has seen widespread adoption throughout the mobility industry.

All our publicly announced conformance programs:

Jul 11

RECORDING: OpenChain Germany – 2H 2025 and Beyond – A Strategy Discussion

By News

We Held A Meeting To Discuss Three Things:

  1. To identify what is happening in the country around open source process management
  2.  What we can usefully contribute to increase value in this area for local businesses, projects and government
  3. Any areas of concern that might need global community assistance

Watch the Meeting:

Identified Challenges Faced for the OpenChain Germany Work Group:

Our current challenge is a lack of momentum in our meeting schedule and discussions. The challenge appears to be caused by two things:

  • Lack of time on everyone’s part
  • A wide variety of activities making it difficult to focus energy

Identified Priorities for the German Market:

Suggested Next Steps: 

Discussion Document:

We have created a document to help everyone share ideas (and refine other ideas) about next steps in the country. You can find and add comments to the document here:

Jul 11

RECORDING: OpenChain India – 2H 2025 and Beyond – A Strategy Discussion

By News

We Held A Meeting To Discuss Three Things:

  1. To identify what is happening in the country around open source process management
  2.  What we can usefully contribute to increase value in this area for local businesses, projects and government
  3. Any areas of concern that might need global community assistance

Watch the Meeting:

Identified Challenges Faced for the OpenChain India Work Group:

Our current challenge is a lack of momentum in our meeting schedule and discussions. The challenge appears to be caused by two things:

  • Lack of time on everyone’s part
  • A wide variety of activities making it difficult to focus energy

Identified Priorities for the Indian Market:

Suggested Next Steps:

  • Identify where ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974 can assist
  • Identify where OpenChain reference material can assist
  • Discuss if we can create new reference material to assist

Discussion Document:

We have created a document to help everyone share ideas (and refine other ideas) about next steps in the country. You can find and add comments to the document here:

Jul 10

RECORDING: OpenChain Monthly Specification and Education Call (North America – Europe) – 2025-07-09

By News

We Discussed:

This was a busy meeting. Lead by Chris Wood (Chair, Specification Work Group), and featuring discussions from Martin Yagi (Chair Education Work Group) and Dave Marr (Co-Chair AI Work Group), we worked through the following agenda:

  1. Introducing new Work Group Chairs
  2. Education Work Group next steps
  3. AI Work Group – Draft AI Compliance Guide public comment period
  4. Specification Work Group – Approvals for updates to standards
  5. and more

Watch the Recording:

Coming Next:

  • With concrete targets for implementing agreed updates to the existing standards;
  • A new outreach beginning to triage further updates to the existing standards;
  • A provisional roadmap for further developing our education material;
  • And a six week window before finalizing a new AI compliance guide;

We have full but focused activity ahead.

Join Our Work:

Everyone is welcome to be part of the Specification Work Group. You can join their mailing list here:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/specification/

You can find and be part of all OpenChain calls through our participation page here:
https://openchainproject.org/participate

Jul 07

Webinar – How we are doing compliance at CARIAD with ORT

By automation, legal, licensing, News, security, Webinar

This webinar covered how the team in VW Group are doing compliance at CARIAD with ORT. Helio Chissini de Castro lead the discussion, and we had some interesting Q&A.

This is an outcome webinar from the OpenChain and Friends event in Stuttgart, Germany during April 2025. This event saw speakers from Germany and beyond come together to share best practices around open source process management, compliance and automation.

Watch the Webinar:

More About Our Webinars:

This event is part of the overarching OpenChain Project Webinar Series. Our series highlights knowledge from throughout the global OpenChain eco-system. Participants are discussing approaches, processes and activities from their experience, providing a free service to increase shared knowledge in the supply chain. Our goal, as always, is to increase trust and therefore efficiency. No registration or costs involved. This is user companies producing great informative content for their peers.

Check Out The Rest Of Our Webinars

This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2025-07-03.

Jul 07

Public Comment Period Announced: Artificial Intelligence System Bill of Materials – Compliance Management Guide for the Supply Chain

By Featured, News
The OpenChain AI Work Group has been considering how to manage AI compliance in the supply chain for over a year. During this time the community has collaboratively produced a draft guide to identify key process points for a quality AI compliance program:

Next Steps:

With approval from the OpenChain Governing Board, the draft ‘The Artificial Intelligence System Bill of Materials: Compliance Management Guide for the Supply Chain’ is now entering a Public Comment Period.

Participate:

This Public Comment period will follow the OpenChain Project process outlined on our website:

YOU CAN SUBMIT A COMMENT BY:

  1. Opening an issue on the OpenChain Project Reference Library GitHub Repository:
    https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/issues
  2. Emailing the OpenChain AI Work Group mailing list:
    https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/ai
The Public Comment Period will run for six weeks.
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THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PUBLIC COMMENTS IS 2025-08-18 AT 04:00 PDT / 11:00 UTC / 13:00 CEST / 20:00 JST.

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Please note: THE DRAFT GUIDE IS NOT A PRODUCTION RELEASE OR OFFICIAL RELEASE DOCUMENT FROM THE OPENCHAIN PROJECT. AT THIS JUNCTURE, IT IS WORKING DOCUMENT DESIGNED TO ALLOW INTERESTED PARTIES TO SHARE IDEAS.
Jul 04

ECARX Announces An OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program

By Featured, News

ECARX is a global automotive technology provider partnering with OEMs to accelerate the future of software-defined vehicles. As OEMs develop new vehicle platforms from the ground up, ECARX is developing a full-stack solutions to enhance the user experience, while reducing complexity and cost.

To date ECARX products have been integrated into more than 8.7 million cars worldwide. Founded in 2017, and listed on the Nasdaq in 2022, it has more than 1,800 team members across Europe, Asia and the Americas working towards one ambition: to redefine the driving experience by making it safer and more enjoyable for everyone.

Jul 02

Webinar – Project OCCTET.eu – The Why, What and How

By automation, community, legal, licensing, News, security, Webinar

This webinar covered an interesting new EU-funded project that brings together various open source tooling for open source security and compliance like Open Source Review Toolkit (ORT) and AboutCode, and other experts in the domain of open source compliance, security and automation. It featured Andreas Kotulla (Bitsea) and Martin von Willebrand (DoubleOpen), and had lively interaction from our audience.

This is an outcome webinar from the OpenChain and Friends event in Stuttgart, Germany during April 2025. This event saw speakers from Germany and beyond come together to share best practices around open source process management, compliance and automation.

Watch the Webinar:

More About Our Webinars:

This event is part of the overarching OpenChain Project Webinar Series. Our series highlights knowledge from throughout the global OpenChain eco-system. Participants are discussing approaches, processes and activities from their experience, providing a free service to increase shared knowledge in the supply chain. Our goal, as always, is to increase trust and therefore efficiency. No registration or costs involved. This is user companies producing great informative content for their peers.

Check Out The Rest Of Our Webinars

This OpenChain Webinar was broadcast on 2025-07-01.

Jul 01

Please welcome our duly elected 2025/2026 chairs for the OpenChain Specification, Education and Telco Work Groups

By Featured, News

We had the OpenChain Governing Board meeting last week, and our community-elected chairs for the OpenChain Specification, Education and Telco Work Groups were formally approved. Their terms begin today, July 1st 2025.

Please welcome:
– Specification: Chris Wood, Lockheed Martin (4th term)
– Education: Martin Yagi, First Light Fusion (1st term)
– Telco: Marc-Etienne Vargenau, Nokia (3rd term)

It is wonderful to have their help, contributions and experience applied to making a more trusted open source supply chain.

We are looking forward to the year ahead! There is a lot to do.

Want to be part of this? Check out our participation page. Everyone is welcome.