Toyota has built strong ties into the global open source development community and into areas related to open source patent non-aggression and copyright compliance. During the Legal & Licensing Workshop in Barcelona during April 2018 Endo San from the Toyota legal team explained their approach and the benefits it brings.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of a Conformance and Compliance Checklist to assist with quick, easy and effective adoption of key requirements for quality open source compliance programs.
This document is targeted to support direct conformance activities. It frames the key requirements for conformance in a simple yes/no format that can rapidly contextualize progress in an organization.
This material was kindly contributed by id Law Partners in Spain and – as with all reference material provided by the OpenChain Project – is available under a Creative Commons 0 license (effectively public domain). You can use, study, share and improve it without restriction.
Get the Checklist
- Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
The OpenChain Specification Version 1.2 is now available in Japanese. You can get it here in PDF format.
Version 1.2 is the result of the contributions of more than 150 people over the past three years. Congratulations and a big thanks to all those who contributed! Each and every contribution, whether or not it resulted in an addition, modification or debate, led to a better specification.
Huge thanks are due to the Linux Foundation Japan volunteer translation team for localizing our newest release so quickly. Special thanks is due to Taniguchi San for driving this process.
Learn More:
The OpenChain Japan Work Group will hold its fourth meeting at Toyota’s Midland Square offices on the 13th of June. This event builds on the recent meeting held at Panasonic’s facilities in Osaka with representatives from 15 companies in attendance, and will be a great chance to obtain practical case studies, reference material and to network.
The meeting will be held in Japanese. If you want to attend please reach out to <hiroki_takemi@mail.toyota.co.jp>.
Details in Japanese
OpenChain_Japan_WG関係者の皆様
いつもお世話になっております。
トヨタ自動車株式会社
知的財産部 コーポレート知財室
竹見 宏樹です。
6月開催予定のJapan_WG（弊社ホスト）を下記の通りご案内させて頂きます。
つきましては、参加希望の方は「会社名」、「氏名」、「懇親会参加可否」の3点を、
竹見<hiroki_takemi@mail.toyota.co.jp>までご連絡いただきますようお願いします（5/28（月）〆）。
※弊社側の入館手続きに上記情報が必要となります。
【日時】6/13（水）13:30-16:30
【場所】トヨタ自動車名古屋オフィス（ミッドランドスクエア）
<http://www.toyota.co.jp/jpn/company/about_toyota/outline/nagoya_office.html>
【備考】
① 当日、私から入館カードをお配りしますので13：30に弊社名古屋オフィス総合受付（ミッドランドスクエア24F）に集合ください。
※ミッドランドスクエア1Fから24Fまでシャトルエレベータがございます。ご利用ください。
② Japan_WG終了後に懇親会を予定しております（会費4～5000円程度を予定）。
③ 同建物内にて弊社ショールームがございますのでご都合よろしければ是非ご観覧頂ければと存じます。
<http://www.toyota.co.jp/showroom_midlandsquare/>
当日アジェンダを募集しておりますので、Japan_WGメーリングリスト若しくは竹見に直接ご連絡ください。
皆様の奮ってのご参加、お待ちしております。
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ようお願い致します。
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Newsletter – Issue 12 – April 2018
Introduction
OpenChain has reached several important milestones during the last month. The first is a new release of the Specification (see below) but no less important are the strides being seen in adoption, reference material contributions, case studies and local work teams or workshops. It provides a strong start to our quarter with thanks, as always, due to our vibrant community.
OpenChain Specification
The OpenChain Specification version 1.2 was released on the 19th of April at the Legal and Licensing Workshop in Barcelona. This document presents a refined, easier to understand and easier to translate format. Our goal is to open our community to wider participation and adoption.
Specification version 1.2 is the result of contributions of more than 150 people over the past three years. Congratulations and a big thanks to all those who contributed! Each and every contribution, whether or not it resulted in an addition, modification or debate, led to a better specification.
- Download a copy of the specification here: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchainspec-1.2.pdf
- Learn more about it here: https://www.openchainproject.org/spec
- Self-certify here: https://www.openchainproject.org/conformance
Feel a little out of your depth? You can get a better understanding of how the specification was developed and what its goals are right here:
OpenChain Conformance
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome NodeWeaver as the latest organization with an OpenChain conformant program. NodeWeaver is a zero-management hyperconverged infrastructure – that integrates storage, networking and virtualization in a single system. It is built using the same principles of large scale systems used by Google and Amazon, making them available to small and medium enterprises.
Great feedback was provided on their experience with our project:
“With more than 80% of our code being open source, Open Source license compliance is an essential aspect for us” says Carlo Daffara, NodeWeaver’s CEO. “OpenChain helped us in making the process streamlined, repeatable and consistent, and substantially lowered our compliance cost while increasing visibility into all aspect of our production process.”
Learn more here:
- https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2018/04/18/nodeweavers-a-new-openchain-conformant-organization
But there is more! As mentioned in our last newsletter, we have been working with the British National Health Service and their partners on both conformance and case studies. We are honored to be able to formally announce the first fruits of this collaboration.
We have welcomed AB EHR as an organization with an OpenChain Conformant program, an important step towards practical adoption by NHS providers charged with running technical projects, in this case the Code4Health initiative.
Martin of Source Code Control, the key liaison in this collaboration provided a quote to summarise the value seen:
“We have been supporting Code4Health for a number of years to manage their open source supply chain. The OpenChain Specification has enabled us to validate the processes meet industry best practice and that the solutions being promoted to NHS are best of breed and this can be transparently demonstrated.” Martin Callinan, Director Source Code Control Ltd.
Learn more here:
OpenChain Case Studies
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of our first case study, a collaboration with NHS England, NHS Digital and AB EHR. This case study offers an insight into how and why the British National Health Service has decided to use the OpenChain Specification as a baseline for effective compliance across its digital projects.
Our first case study is centered around adoption by the service provider AB EHR for the code4health project. This marks the first step in a broader deployment plan across multiple projects and providers in the coming months and years.
You can download the case study here:
OpenChain @ Events
The OpenChain Project was featured at numerous events across the globe in late March and throughout April.
- The first event was in partnership with Moorcrofts in the UK with an OpenChain session at a BCS event in London on the 22nd of March.
- On the same day Software Compliance Academy highlighted the OpenChain Project, curriculum, training and specification at an event hosted on the 22nd March by ZVEI, one of the most important manufacturers’ associations in Germany.
- We were then featured in a keynote on OpenChain at Linaro Connect in Hong Kong (also on the 22nd March!).
- The OpenChain Project was featured at the first Asian Legal Network meeting of 2018 in Tokyo on the 6th of April.
- This was followed by an Asian Legal Network event in Seoul on the 12th of April.
- We had a substantial presence at the Legal and Licensing Workshop Barcelona between the 18th and 20th of April.
- Which overlapped with a simultaneous third meeting of the OpenChain Japan Work Group at the Panasonic headquarters in Osaka on the 19th of April, attended by representatives from 15 companies.
Keep track of all our events here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/events
OpenChain Internationalization
Internationalization efforts are being prepared to translate the new OpenChain Specification into our key target languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean and German). Activity is also underway to provide outcomes from the Japan Work Group sessions to the wider community. Of particular note are several case studies from companies like Panasonic to discuss their experiences and reasons for engagement.
Coming next
You can expect additional announcements regarding conformant organizations, reference materials and translations in the coming month. The process for developing the OpenChain Specification 1.3 will also get underway. All contributions, suggestions and comments are always welcome.
License and Trademarks
Copyright 2018 The Linux Foundation. This newsletter is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0). Please feel free to share it onwards! OpenChain is a trademark of The Linux Foundation. It may be used according to The Linux Foundation Trademark Policy and the OpenChain Terms of Use. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
The third meeting of the OpenChain Japan Work Group took place at the Panasonic headquarters in Osaka. This event was attended by around 30 people representing 15 organizations. Topics on the agenda included real world application of the specification to solve supply chain challenges and the collection of case studies from a diverse range of Japanese stakeholders.
The outcomes of the event will be shared in more detail in the coming weeks. As with all Japan Work Group meetings, this event was held in Japanese, and kindly self-organized by our excellent local community.
The OpenChain Project is excited to announce the availability of the OpenChain Specification version 1.2. This document presents a refined, easier to understand and easier to translate format. Our goal is to open our community to wider participation and adoption.
The following African proverb captures the essence of the OpenChain community effort:
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Version 1.2 is the result of the contributions of more than 150 people over the past three years. Congratulations and a big thanks to all those who contributed! Each and every contribution, whether or not it resulted in an addition, modification or debate, led to a better specification.
Learn More:
- Download a copy of the specification here: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchainspec-1.2.pdf
- Learn more about it here: https://www.openchainproject.org/spec
- Self-certify here: https://www.openchainproject.org/conformance
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome NodeWeaver as our latest organization with an OpenChain conformant program.
NodeWeaver is a zero-management hyperconverged infrastructure – that integrates storage, networking and virtualization in a single system. It is built using the same principles of large scale systems used by Google and Amazon, making them available to small and medium enterprises.
“With more than 80% of our code being open source, Open Source license compliance is an essential aspect for us” says Carlo Daffara, NodeWeaver’s CEO. “OpenChain helped us in making the process streamlined, repeatable and consistent, and substantially lowered our compliance cost while increasing visibility into all aspect of our production process.”
“The European sphere is vitally important for open source software,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Direction. “It is a market with frequent explicit requests for open source throughout procurement and it contains an extremely vital community of small to medium enterprises. We are delighted to welcome NodeWeaver to our list of OpenChain Conformant organizations. This is both because of their long-history in open source and their unique position to support and influence many more companies across the continent.”
Learn More:
The OpenChain Project is delighted to welcome AB EHR as an organization with an OpenChain Conformant program. Their participation is especially valued as it ties into collaboration with NHS England, NHS Digital and other key stakeholders involved with open source in the British National Health System.
“We have been supporting Code4Health for a number of years to manage their open source supply chain. The OpenChain Specification has enabled us to validate the processes meet industry best practice and that the solutions being promoted to NHS are best of breed and this can be transparently demonstrated.” Martin Callinan, Director Source Code Control Ltd.
AB EHR’s participation is also the subject of our first case study. You can learn more about it here and you can also download the full case study in PDF format here.
“This is another important step to bring yet further assurance to the health and care system by evidencing good governance and best practice in the development and use of opensource solutions,” says Peter Coates, Head of Ecosystem Development, and leader of NHS Digital’s support of Code4Health.
“Community is at the heart of OpenChain as a project,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain Project Director. “This goes beyond the narrow confines of one industry segment or one market approach. It is about every entity that makes, uses or supports open source software. We are delighted to demonstrate this broad applicability in close partnership with organizations like AB EHR and Source Code Control.”
The OpenChain community of conformant organizations is growing across a wide range of stakeholders from all corners of software creation and use. You can follow the progress of our conformance program here and you can participate in our community here. Everyone, from organizations of all types, is very welcome.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of our first case study, a collaboration with NHS England, NHS Digital and AB EHR. This case study offers an insight into how and why the British National Health Service has decided to use the OpenChain Specification as a baseline for effective compliance across its digital projects.
Our first case study is centered around adoption by the service provider AB EHR for the code4health project. This marks the first step in a broader deployment plan across multiple projects and providers in the coming months and years.
Get the full case study right here.
