Shane Coughlan

The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held an online meeting to discuss a recent face-to-face in Stuttgart, Germany, Over-The-Air (OTA) update concepts and Software Bill of Materials. The meeting was hosted by Marcel Kurzmann of Bosch.

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• Re-Cap of the OpenChain Automotive F2F Workgroup-meeting from September 10th
• Presentation of OTA concepts in automotive – maybe by eSync Alliance
• Updates from the SBOM-study-group and discussion about potential automotive specific requirement

Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, will deliver a speech entitled ‘Understanding How Open Source Is Managed Professionally in 2024’ at ETRI Open Source Tech Day 2024 in Korea. This event will take place on the 15th of October in Seoul, and more details – including the full program – can be found on the official website.

Learn More (Korean):

• https://eostday.kr/?act=info.page&pcode=sub2_1

During the Operations Management Summit at Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna, Kobota San (Sony) and Ninjouji San (Toshiba) from the OpenChain Project gave a deep-dive into some of the original and current market realities behind the creation and use of the SPDX Lite SBOM format.

Their slides contain a wealth of information that is useful for anyone working in this field.

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The OpenChain Project will be featured at the OSCAR event in Beijing, China on the 16th of October. OpenChain will be represented by Zhenhua Sun of ByteDance, the current Chair of the OpenChain China Work Group.

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• https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bYXpKWWEarLIPbcbVN8U-A

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The OpenChain AI Study Group held its regular workshop on the 1st of October. Karen Bennet from SPDX provided a briefing on AI BOM. Work also progressed on the draft scratchpad for management of AI BOMs.

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You can follow and contribute to the work of the OpenChain AI Study Group through its dedicated mailing list. This is open to everyone regardless of industry vertical or speciality. You will find it here:

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/ai

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We held our regular Monthly North America and Europe Call on the 1st of October. The focus was on discussing the Public Comment period for our draft proposed updates to the licensing and security specifications, and on the outcomes of the recent Steering Committee meeting.

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Link to the Steering Committee Meeting Recording:

We keep all the slides from our monthly calls online and they can be a useful way to access direct links and more details:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Meeting-Minutes/tree/main/Slides

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This webinar will cover the topic of SBOM visualization to provide an alternative approach to review code.

Abstract

In order to comply with the use of open source, when setting up the SBOM, care must be taken not only to list the components, but also to show how they are incorporated into your products (this is a multidimensional space consisting of hierarchy, linking, modification, export restrictions, security vulnerabilities, distribution type, versions, etc.), and how properties may propagate through the dependency tree. Keeping track of these complex relationships based on a text file or tables is extremely difficult.

As part of a research project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWi) and with the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and Bitsea, a visualization of the meta information was implemented that displays the relationships and potential risks quickly and in an easy-to-understand way.

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• https://www.openchainproject.org/participate

About the Speaker

Dr Kotulla is the founder and managing director of Bitsea GmbH and specializes in the technical audits of software systems. Bitsea assesses open source compliance and advises clients comprehensively on open source management, open source strategy, open source governance, open source processes, tool chains and offers an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and scanning as a managed service.

Dr Kotulla is a computer scientist, has been active in IT for more than three decades, leads workshops and gives lectures on open source, software engineering, software quality and worked for 12 years for international telecommunications providers. He is a member of the Linux Foundation’s OpenChain project, is active in Bitkom e.V.’s Open Source working group and is the author of several books and publications.

Learn More: www.bitsea.de

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.

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• https://www.openchainproject.org/webinars

We held our regular Monthly North America and Europe Call on the 3rd of September. The focus was on discussing the Public Comment period for our draft proposed updates to the licensing and security specifications.

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We keep all the slides from our monthly calls online and they can be a useful way to access direct links and more details:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Meeting-Minutes/tree/main/Slides

What We Did On This Call:

Update openchain-license-compliance-3.0.md #76

Changed:

 A process shall exist for creating the set of compliance artifacts for the supplied software.

Verification material(s):

• 3.4.1.1 – A documented procedure that describes the process under which the compliance artifacts are prepared and distributed with the supplied software as required by the identified licenses.
• 3.4.1.2 – A documented procedure for archiving copies of the compliance artifacts of the supplied software – where the archive is planned to exist for a reasonable period of time (Determined by domain, legal jurisdiction and/or customer contracts) since the last offer of the supplied software; or as required by the identified licenses (whichever is longer). Records exist that demonstrate the procedure has been properly followed.

To:

A process shall exist for creating the set of compliance artifacts for the supplied software.

Verification material(s):

• 3.4.1.1 – A documented procedure that describes the process under which the compliance artifacts are prepared and distributed with the supplied software as required by the identified licenses.
• 3.4.1.2 – A documented procedure for archiving copies of the compliance artifacts of the supplied software – where the archive is planned to exist for a reasonable period of time (determined by domain, legal jurisdiction and/or customer contracts) since the last offer of the supplied software, or as required by the identified licenses (whichever is longer). Records exist that demonstrate the procedure has been properly followed.

Improved 2.7 #75

Changed:

a “Software Bill of Materials” (SBOM) is a inventory for software, a list of ingredients that make up software components. An example is the (Software Package Data Exchange) SPDX specification created by the Linux Foundation’s SPDX Project to exchange bill of materials for a given software package (see spdx.org). Regardless of the SBOM specification used, it should follow a complete profile for the intended use case.

To:

a “Software Bill of Materials” (SBOM) is an inventory for software, a list of ingredients that make up software components. An example is the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification created by the Linux Foundation’s SPDX Project to exchange bill of materials for a given software package (see spdx.org). Regardless of the SBOM specification used, it should follow a complete profile for the intended use case.

Update openchain-license-compliance-3.0.md #74

Changed:

a set of open source software licenses identified as a result of following an appropriate method of identifying open source components from which the supplied software is may contain

To:

a set of open source software licenses identified as a result of following an appropriate method of identifying open source components which the supplied software may contain

Terms and definitions sub-headings to same level openchain-license-co… #66

Fixed formatting:

“Under Terms and definitions there were some sub-headings with ## and some with ### so changed them all to be ### level sub-headings.”

Update openchain-security-specification-2.0.md #37

Changed:

3.3.2 – Security Assurance

A process shall exist to detect, identify, and document the existence of Known Vulnerabilities in each Open Source Software component on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for the Supplied Software.

To:

3.3.2 – Security Assurance

A process shall exist to detect, identify, and document the existence of Known Vulnerabilities in each Open Source Software component in the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for the Supplied Software.

Overview of the Public Comment Period

OpenChain Project Announces Public Comment Period for Draft Updates to Compliance and Security Specifications

Starting 2024-06-19 ~ Ending 2024-12-19

The OpenChain Project has announced the beginning of its six month Public Comment Period for proposed draft updates to the open source license compliance (ISO/IEC 5230:2020) and open source security assurance (ISO/IEC 18974:2023) specifications.

As per our specification development process outlined in the project FAQ, this Public Comment Period will run for six months, and it will be followed by a three month Freeze Period.

During the Public Comment Period everyone is invited to review and comment on the specifications. As an open project developing open standards, we host the draft documents on our GitHub repositories.

Learn More:

• https://openchainproject.org/featured/2024/06/19/public-comment-period-2024

You can comment on this process by joining our monthly calls or via our Specification Mailing list. You can also leave comments via GitHub issues as detailed below.

• Visit Our Participation Page