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.
DeNA will host an ad hoc OpenChain Japan Work Group meeting between 13:00-15:00 on June 19th at the DeNA Shibuya Hikarie offices. During this meeting Ueda San from Sony will present the recently released supplier education leaflet and we will have an open discussion on use cases, questions and improvements.
Due to seeking active discussion the number of participants will be limited to around 20 persons.
Toyota will host an OpenChain Japan License Sub-Group meeting on the 11th of June. This meeting will cover topics like SPDX-Lite and international collaboration. As with all OpenChain Japan Work Group meetings, the discussion will be held in Japanese, though everyone is always welcome to participate.
日時：2019/06/11(火) 9:00-11:00
場所：トヨタ自動車（飯田橋）
議事：當麻 徹
Agenda
・ガイドライン作成
- 英語化した目次案、各項目に関する記載内容素案 (Slack投稿版)のレビュー
- 次回SPDX Asia Tel-Confへの提案に際しての付議項目（が、あるか？）
The OpenChain Project today announces the release of the Open Source Software License Compliance General Public Guide. This document is an outcome of the OpenChain Japan Work Group, one of the most active and vibrant parts of our project.
The leaflet is intended to be a short, simple and clear guide for distribution to suppliers of all sizes. Our intention is to provide a solid foundation for understanding open source license compliance in an accessible manner.
This document is made available in English and Japanese. We hope to add further translations in the future. As with all OpenChain Project reference material, the guide is made available under CC-0 licensing (effectively public domain, and it may be used, studied, shared and improved in any way you want.
Today the OpenChain Project welcomes CMS to our growing partner program. The addition of this top 10 international law firm marks another significant expansion of service providers supporting the OpenChain eco-system.
“We at CMS in Germany are excited about the opportunity to work with the OpenChain Project in the future,” says Philippe Heinzke, Counsel for Intellectual Property at CMS in Germany. “Certification and quality assurance for open source software is an important issue for our clients and will continue to pose new challenges for companies and institutions in the future. OpenChain helps to deal with open source software in a legally compliant manner, strengthens trust in suppliers and customers and thus contributes to compliance in digital transformation, but also in classic product development processes.”
“Working with CMS in Germany marks another milestone for the OpenChain Project,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Such partnerships will become increasingly important as OpenChain disseminates further into the automotive, infrastructure and consumer electronics supply chain. Germany is a market of immense importance to our industry standard. We are at the beginning of a journey that will reduce complexity, cost and time-to-market for companies of all sizes in this geography.”
About CMS in Germany:
CMS is one of the leading commercial law firms in Germany. More than 600 lawyers, tax advisers and notaries advise SMEs and major corporations on all aspects of national and international commercial law. CMS Germany has offices in eight major German business locations, as well as in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, Moscow and Shanghai.
Founded in 1999, CMS is a top 10 international law firm, based on the number of lawyers (Am Law 2018 Global 100). With 70+ offices in 40+ countries across the world, employing over 4,500 lawyers, CMS has longstanding expertise both at advising in its local jurisdictions and across borders. CMS acts for a large number of Fortune 500 companies and the FT European 500 and for the majority of the DAX 30.
CMS provides a wide range of expertise across 19 expert practice and sector areas, including Corporate/M&A, Energy, Funds, Lifesciences, TMC, Tax, Banking and Finance, Commercial, Competition & EU, Dispute Resolution, Employment & Pensions, Intellectual Property and Real Estate & Construction.
We are delighted to welcome Cognizant as the latest OpenChain Conformant Organization. This development confirms another Fortune 500 company as OpenChain Specification Conformant and represents a substantial increase in our global presence.
“It is tremendously exciting to welcome another open source user company into the heart of the OpenChain Project,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our mission is to support such companies both in pursuing internal excellent and in streamlining open source license compliance across their supply chain. The team at Cognizant is a pleasure to work with and I firmly believe we will accomplish great things in the coming months and years.”
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Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 193 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the second OpenChain Korea Work Group meeting will be held at the Samsung R&D campus on the 12th of June. Great thanks are due to Yoonhwan Jung (Samsung) and Haksung Jang (LG). This builds on the excellent first meeting held on the 23rd of January 2019. If you are interested in joining please let us know on the Korean Work Group mailing list.
The OpenChain Specification 2.0 is now in Simplified Chinese thanks to the hard work of our volunteer community. Special thanks are due to Jerry Tan, Zhang Weilin, Po-Chun Wang, Lucien Lin and Florence Ko.
“The OpenChain Project is global and we are working hard to make our resources available in many languages,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “China, as a key market, is a priority for us. The availability of our latest specification in Simplified Chinese is the first step towards making self-certification simple and quick for companies in the region. It joins our Traditional Chinese translation as an example of our commitment to building effective bridges.”
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The OpenChain Project today welcomes Maggie Wang as the latest participant of our Partner Program.
“Maggie has a long history of supporting Chinese companies from all market sectors engage with open source software,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Working with Maggie provides our first formal step into the Chinese market and is an indication of where we want to go next. OpenChain is run by user companies for the benefit of user companies. There is no market more important than China for open source. We are looking forward to dramatically increasing our engagement over the next 12 months.”
Learn more about our partner program
We are developing a compelling commercial partner program to support of our core mission of ensuring that any organization, anywhere can adopt OpenChain easily. The partner program operates adjacent to our free online self-certification, free reference material and free access to our specification. Our goal is to provide user companies the option of obtaining assistance from training, consultancy or tooling entities, from outside law firms and from third-party certification authorities.
The OpenChain Japan Work Group operates seven sub-groups covering topics as diverse as tooling and license information exchange. Next Tuesday, the 11th of June, the Promotion Sub-Group will meet to discuss next steps in building engagement deeper into the Japanese and global supply chain.
These meetings provide an informal and friendly space for discussion
Everyone is welcome to join any OpenChain Japan Work Group meeting or sub-group meeting at any time. You can learn more about individual meetings by visiting our dedicated Japan wiki or joining our dedicated Japanese mailing list. While the business of the work groups is held in Japanese you are welcome to ask questions in English.
Special thanks are due to Endo San from Toyota for his leadership in the Promotion Sub-Group. His work inside Toyota and with the broader Japanese open source community has been invaluable.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome FOSSID as our latest participant in the partner program. We are developing a compelling commercial partner program to support of our core mission of ensuring that any organization, anywhere can adopt OpenChain easily. The partner program operates adjacent to our free online self-certification, free reference material and free access to our specification. Our goal is to provide user companies the option of obtaining assistance from training, consultancy or tooling entities, from outside law firms and from third-party certification authorities.
“The OpenChain Project has grown immensely in the last year and a half,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “This growth has occurred precisely where we can make the most difference: in the heart of key supply chains such as embedded, mobile and automotive. We are delighted to welcome FOSSID to the OpenChain Partner Program as our first tooling vender. Not only do they have deep experience in open source, but Oskar and his team have been involved in our project as observers and contributors for several years. I believe our collaboration will help more companies become OpenChain conformant more quickly. I am looking forward to next steps.”
“From the get-go, we realized that OpenChain would become a driver of great value to entire ecosystems, making open source license compliance more efficient and bringing better confidence to every layer in the supply chain”, said Oskar Swirtun, CEO, FOSSID. “Having been keen observers and contributors for many years, today we proudly announce us joining OpenChain as the first tooling vendor partner. We are excited to help companies and organizations become OpenChain conformant through our lightweight and flexible tools.”
FOSSID offers a state-of-the-art open source scanner that integrates seamlessly in your development process and detects pieces of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in your code base, from entire components to code snippets. FOSSID’s software uncovers license obligations, compliance issues, and security vulnerabilities so that you can focus on creating great products. Discover more at https://www.fossid.com.
