Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that our Japan Work Group has produced a series of case-studies in English and Japanese from named and anonymous members of the local group. These case studies follow a shared format and outline key challenges and useful approaches.

“It is impossible to overstate the value of the case studies provided by the OpenChain Japan Work Group,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “This material provides the local and international market with some tangible insights into how key stakeholders in the field manage open source compliance.”

You can download the first case study featuring Panasonic here:

• Panasonic Case Study in PDF Format

These case studies will be released twice a week in the lead-up to the Open Source Summit Japan event (June 20-22 in Tokyo). You can be part of this process and part of the larger Japan Work Group activities through participating in our forthcoming ad-hoc meeting on the 8th of June and the next formal meeting at the Toyota Midland Square facility in Nagoya on the 13th of June.

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

You can obtain the template used by the Japan Work Group here:

• Case Study Template in PDF Format
• Case Study Template in PPTX Format

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The next Asian Legal Network event will take place on the 28th May in Beijing. OpenChain Project will be featured in a keynote speech. This will lay the foundation for our larger workshop on 25th June. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Learn More:

• Download the full PDF explaining the event and speakers here.

Announcing the OpenChain Workshop @ LinuxCon China

08:00~12:00 on June 25 2018 in Beijing.
Local and International Open Source Compliance.
Free for all to attend.

OpenChain 项目将于 6 月 25 日（星期一）上午 8 点至 12 点在中国国家会议中心举办为期半天的研讨会。本次研讨会将介绍现代开源的合规性，OpenChain 教育和参考资料如何帮助公司，以及公司如何使用 OpenChain 规范来有效管理开源软件并降低使用开源软件所衍生之相关管理成本。

这是一个免费研讨会，旨在回答现实中存在的问题。项目经理，开源小组成员，法律人员和商业决策者都会在此内容中找到有用的信息并有所收获。只需发送一封电子邮件至 coughlan@linux.com 即可完成注册

会议日期/时间：2018 年 6 月 25 日，星期，8:00 – 12:00
会议地址：中国国家会议中心，北京
会议费用： 免费

关于 OpenChain 项目：

OpenChain 项目可以通过简化、一致化开源许可合规性，建立企业对开源的信任。OpenChain 规范定义了一组核心要求以满足每个质量合规计划。OpenChain 课程可为开源流程和解决方案提供教育基础，同时满足 OpenChain 规范的核心要求。OpenChain 的一致性可帮助组织显示他们遵守且满足这些要求。软件供应链的参与者最终将更能预测、理解开源许可合规性，并且更加地高效的来使用开源软件。

The OpenChain Workshop will explain modern open source compliance, how the OpenChain education and reference material can help companies, and how the OpenChain Specification is being used by companies to increase efficiency and save costs.

This is a free workshop designed to answer real-world questions. Program managers, project managers, open source office members, legal personnel and business decision-makers will all find something useful in its content. To register simply send an email to coughlan(at)linux(dot)com

Event Date/Time: Monday, June 25, 2018, 8:00 – 12:00
Event Location: China National Convention Center, Beijing
Event Cost: Complimentary

About the OpenChain Project:

The OpenChain Project is delighted to release two reference kanban workflows, one contributed from ID Law Partners in Spain and the other contributed from Source Code Control in the UK. These contributions provide inspiration around how organizations can use a simple workflow to check and improve their open source compliance activities. The end goal of both reference kanban workflows is to support OpenChain Conformance, but it is worth noting that the materials are also suitable for activities adjacent to or separate from specific conformance initiatives.

“The OpenChain Project has a community-developed Specification that outlines the key processes of a quality open source compliance program,” says Shane Coughlan, Project Director. “Specifying these key processes has immense value in focusing resources to solve important challenges. However, the OpenChain Project goes further than this, and now provides a wealth of reference material and guidance documentation. The releases today are an important example of this. These kanban documents have already proven to be invaluable to assist with improving compliance processes and in assisting with OpenChain Conformance. Now they are available to all under CC-0 licensing.”

Learn More:

• ID Law Partners reference kanban – Excel (XLSX) format
• ID Law Partners reference kanban – ODS format
• Source Code Control reference kanban – Excel (XLSX) format
• Source Code Control reference kanban – ODS format

The OpenChain Project will be featured at (and a sponsor of) COSCUP in Taipei on the 11th and 12th of August 2018. Our project leader Shane Coughlan along with Japanese community volunteers and Taiwanese community collaborators will participate in the event’s new legal track to share practical compliance solutions and case studies.

You can be part of this too. Related legal talks are most welcome in the track. Just visit the following link to begin your submission:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKnffsc_Ke2ZEP3fInJkAwEzXFUM24HZ7dYYluoGLmHMQjZw/viewform

From our local partner Florence Ko:
我今年在COSCUP申請了一個授權遵循（FOSS Compliance，大陸稱為「授權合規」）的社群軌，目前已經敲定了兩位日本Sony公司的人，會來台灣分享他們在Sony內部推動授權遵循的親身經驗，以及日本業界目前的實務狀況。若是有人有興趣分享相關的議題，非常歡迎投稿到FOSS Compliance社群軌，演講語言中文或英文皆可。投稿頁面如下：
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKnffsc_Ke2ZEP3fInJkAwEzXFUM24HZ7dYYluoGLmHMQjZw/viewform

OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we have received tooling overview slides from Software Compliance Academy in Germany. This contribution provides a high level overview and more specific explanations of how and where tooling can contribute to increased efficiency in open source compliance. The goal is not to provide specific recommendations but rather to frame the discussion to allow organizations to make informed and use-case specific decisions to support their inbound, internal and outbound software management process. As with all reference material provided by the OpenChain Project these slides are licensed under CC-0 (effectively public domain).

Learn More:

• Get the slides in PDF format
• Get the slides in PPTX format
• Get the slides in ODP format

The Software Compliance Academy will host a FOSS Compliance Seminar on June 14th to 15th in Berlin. This seminar will feature the OpenChain Specification and reference material, providing a great starting point for organizations in Germany, Switzerland or Austria to begin their engagement with the project. More information is available in German below and on the Software Compliance Academy website.

Die Bedeutung der Open Source-Lizenzen und die Frage der Open Source Compliance hat in den vergangenen Jahren vor allem in der IT-Wirtschaft an Bedeutung gewonnen. Aber auch andere Industriezweige sehen sich zunehmend mit Fragen rund um den Einsatz von Open Source-Software konfrontiert:

• Welche juristischen Vorgaben gilt es beim Einsatz von Open Source-Software im Unternehmen und vor allem in kommerziellen Produkten zu beachten?
• Welche Anforderungen sind an das Lizenzmanagement zu stellen und welchen Beitrag kann ein standardisierter Lizenzmanagement Prozess (OpenChain) leisten?
• Welche Möglichkeiten (und welche Grenzen) bieten technische Ansätze im Bereich Lizenzmanagement?

Sofern diese Fragen auch für Sie oder Ihre Kooperationspartner bzw. Ihr Netzwerk von Interesse sind, möchte ich Sie gerne auf unser kommendes zweitägiges Open Source Compliance Seminar in Berlin am 14. und 15. Juni 2018 hinweisen. Neben den Referenten der Software Compliance Academy wird auch Shane Coughlan, Leiter des OpenChain Projektes bei der Linux Foundation, einen Teil des Seminars übernehmen und die aktuellen Entwicklungen des OpenChain Projektes vorstellen.

Learn More:

• Das detaillierte Programm finden Sie unter http://www.scompliance.com/files/uploads/seminare/FOSSCompliance14.u.15.06.2018.pdf
• Die Online-Anmeldung finden Sie unter http://www.scompliance.com/seminar.html

The OpenChain Project has received a contribution of localized onboarding slides from Bird & Bird in Germany. This short deck is designed to help organizations without prior knowledge of OpenChain understand the reasoning and key benefits behind the project. This marks another milestone in the on-going internationalization of OpenChain-related material to support both OpenChain Conformance and broader open source compliance activities in organizations of all sizes. As with all OpenChain contributions, these slides are licensed under CC-0.

“Germany sees increasing interest in building trust that supplied software conforms to applicable open source licenses” says Dr. Miriam Ballhausen, Senior Associate at Bird & Bird. “OpenChain can already serve to demonstrate that such trust is justified. On many occasions, though, organizations in Germany have tackled building trust in their supply chains on their own accord. They have regularly defined requirements for quality compliance programs that considerably overlap with the OpenChain specification. But it still shows that OpenChain has not been sufficiently furthered with English language onboarding material. The German translation aims to fill this gap and support outreach in German speaking countries.”

Learn More:

• Get the slides in PDF format
• Get the slides in PPTX format
• Get the slides in ODP format

Today features the second OpenChain Workshop in Taipei. This event builds on a compliance workshop held during April and marks another step towards the Legal Track that OpenChain will help organize at the COSCUP conference on August 11th and 12th.

From the organizer’s website:

“延續上次對OpenChain規範書及依該規範書產出的「自由開源軟體授權管理訓練課程」，最多參與者的反饋，是如何在正確運用這些知識的前提下，簡要並正確的利用相關工具，實作開源授權管理分析與基礎紀錄。此次，我們將在這樣的反饋下，說明 SPDX 開源套件授權資訊紀錄格式，並配合 FOSSology 這套本身即為開源專案的自由開源授權分析工具，選擇 5 – 10 個講者過往協助過的分析案例，在實作說明下，引導參與者善用這些工具，來了解實際開源合規（法遵）的解析程序為何。

Lucien CH Lin, who has a knowledge background in science and technology law, worked at Academia Sinica in public research in 2005-16. The research results in recent years include: Author of the Taiwan Special Chapter of the Free and Open Source Software Legal Reference Book. , and assist participants from all walks of life to clarify issues such as Open Source, Open Data, CC Licensing, and intellectual property rights and public licensing applications. At present, he has been transferred to a non-governmental firm, and he has served as an advisor to the Open Culture Foundation as a legal advisor. He has allocated time and energy to build an open source legal network (Open Source Legal Network, Taiwan).”

Learn More:

• View the event details here: https://dmfli.kktix.cc/events/openchain2
• Check out the slides here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nfqo28re8z0bag9/20180514-OpenChain%E9%96%8B%E6%BA%90%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86-2-SPDX%E8%88%87FOSSology%E5%AF%A6%E9%9A%9B%E6%87%89%E7%94%A8.pdf?dl=0