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.
The OSPO Local Meeting for Japan will hold its 8th meeting today at 15:00 JST. Learn more below.
OSPO ローカル ミートアップは、日本のオープン ソース プログラム オフィスの状況について話し合い、組織内でのオープン ソース戦略の採用を促進します。 TODO GroupとOpenChain Japan WPによるサポート。
OSPO Local Meetup to discuss the status of Open Source Program offices in Japan, and foster the adoption of an open source strategy within organizations. Supported by TODO Group and OpenChain Japan Working Group.
日時 (Time and Date)：5/26 (Fri) 15:00-16:00
参加方法 (Event Type)：Online (オンライン形式)
参加申込不要、参加条件：独禁法、LF行動規範、および、チャタムハウスルールに従うこと
( No application for participation required, Participation required to follow an Antitrust Law, LF Code of Conduct, and Chatham House rules. )
Jimmy Ahlberg (OpenChain Chairperson) and Eleftheria Stefanaki have published an article entitled ‘Efficient IP management in a market increasingly using open source’ on IAM.
From The Article
Imagine finding out that 90% of the software in your products is not yours but only licensed in as third-party IP. As soon as you start reading the agreements, you realise some of them contain terms you are not familiar with or have never even heard of before, such as “source code”, “binary”, “object code”, and “system libraries”. Moreover, you cannot find basic contractual provisions such as “governing law” or “jurisdiction” in the agreements. These agreements (and there are hundreds of them) are all different, non-negotiable, ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ standard template licences.
[…]
Against this background, this article describes the significance of open source management in the context of IP management. We would like to introduce you to the OpenChain Specification 2.1 (ISO/IEC 5230:2020) on open source licence compliance, and the benefits of implementing such a programme within the framework of your existing IP management.
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The Open Compliance Summit (OCS) 2023 has been announced. It will once again be co-located with OSS Japan as a two day event. It takes place on the 7th and 8th December 2023.
From The Official Website:
OCS is an event for Linux Foundation members and select invitees to discuss process management and automation related to open source license compliance, security assurance and adjacent subjects. This is the world’s foremost venue to discuss and network around these topics. Our goal is to ensure the global supply chain works effectively and efficiently.
Submit a Talk
The Call for Papers is open and will continue until October 1st 2023.
The OpenChain Japan Work Group held one of its regular in-person and virtual meetings on the 18th of May. You can check out the full recording below. The keynote is in English and the majority of the content is in Japanese.
The OpenChain Project will run a mini-summit adjacent to Open Source Summit Europe (OSS EU) on the 18th of September 2023. As with previous mini-summits, we encourage everyone to come together and network in-person. There is also an option to attend virtually. There is a nominal fee of $5 to attend in-person but you can contact us if the causes issues for your budget.
During Open Source Summit North America (OSS NA), we had two talks on automation for security and compliance, and it was clear that this topic resonated. The Q&A ran long, and our agenda has to be shortened to reflect this.
To address this obvious market interest, we will again return to automation for OSS EU, and we will invite some of our European colleagues to do deep dives into the current state of the market. We want to ensure this is a practical event focused on the implementation of processes that support our standards for license compliance and security assurance in organizations.
Chris, Co-Chair of the Specification Work Group, hosted our monthly North America and Asia meeting. As usual, the focus was on editing the next generation of our specifications.
The focus of this call was on the Security Specification (ISO/IEC DIS 18974) and two issues were discussed and provisionally closed:
We have a new GitHub repository to hold all the meeting decks from the Monthly Meetings focused on editing next generation versions of our specifications:
In 2017 the OpenChain Project and FSFE collaborated to make a CC0 version of the REUSE.software Specification 1.0 available for everyone to integrate into their organization processes and business logic. The goal is to eliminate any friction in leveraging this mechanism for better software management.
Please note that the REUSE.software initiative has grown substantially since the first generation of its release. You can find significant resources, including tooling to help usage, on the official REUSE.software website: https://reuse.software
The OpenChain Project provides the global community with conformance badges. These allow organizations to easily show they have an OpenChain Standard-Related Program.
Note: we have added SVG versions of the badges along with AI, PNG, JPG and other formats. This tracks our move towards MarkDown and SVG where possible to make it easier to use things anywhere at any size.
Our 2nd meeting will take place on 2023-05-25 at 16:00 UTC (09:00 PDT / 18:00 CEST / 00:00 CST) to continue our work. Meanwhile, keep up-to-date via our mailing list: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/legal-wg
Reminder:
The goal is to ensure people can understand options. We will not be prescriptive and these model provisions will remain part of the OpenChain reference material. They will not be included in the standards themselves.
Linux Foundation Research has launched the World of Open Source: Global Spotlight 2023 survey to explore the state of open source around the world. The research will investigate regional open source trends including the size and scope of open source programs across organizations and industries, opportunities and challenges in private and public sector engagement in open source, the value proposition of open source, and the use and adoption of open source technologies and best practices.
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