Shane Coughlan

Fujitsu, an OpenChain Platinum Member, is the first organization to attain two OpenChain 2.0 conformant programs. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu personnel support customers in more than 100 countries.

Fujitsu’s Software Business Unit established the first OpenChain 2.0 conformant program in November 2019. Today the Platform Software Business Unit unveils a sister activity and represents the second conformant program. These developments underline how the OpenChain industry standard provides a solution for multinationals seeking effective, efficient open source compliance management.

Fujitsu’s two conformant programs include over 2,000 staff members and constitute one of the largest open source compliance activities in the world. The adoption and increased use of the OpenChain industry standard is a clear and unambiguous example of Fujitsu’s commitment to continually improving processes that support the development and deployment of open source software.

“OpenChain conformance shows that a program inside a company has adopted the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program using the framework of our industry standard,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Fujitsu is now demonstrating how this process can be rolled out to multiple business units in a large company. Acting as both a pioneer and an inspiration, Fujitsu is helping to lead the OpenChain industry standard further into the heart of global IT activity.”

“Fujitsu has been a long supporter of open source communities and valued open source compliance. Continuous evolution of OpenChain Conformance demonstrates our commitment to open source compliance”, says Hayakawa Eiji, Head of Open Source Software Technology Center, Fujitsu Limited. “Following the conformance of Software Business Unit, we kept on working OpenChain conformance process with Platform Software Business Unit, which has long made collaborations and contributions with open source communities and the Linux Foundation. Led by open source specialists in Open Source Software Technology Center and licensing compliance specialists in Intellectual Property Innovation Department, we reached conformance for the second Business Unit and for more than 2,000 employees”

About the OpenChain Project

The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the software supply chain.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. 

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Media Contacts

Shane Coughlan
+818040358083
coughlan@linux.com

Cisco Systems, Inc (Cisco), a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, today announces conformance with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain. As a founding member of the OpenChain Project, Cisco has been instrumental in defining, developing and deploying both the standard and its extensive corpus of reference material. Their conformance marks another milestone in the broadening adoption of the standard throughout silicon, embedded, mobile, telecommunications, enterprise, software and cloud market segments.

“It is hard to overstate the important of this announcement,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Over the past three years Cisco has helped to transform the way we can do compliance across complex supply chains. Leading by example, Samantha and her team have taken this opportunity to seek solutions that provide a high return on investment through efficient use of people and time. With OpenChain set to become an ISO standard in the near future, we look forward to continued collaboration and in supporting the broader community seeking excellence in open source governance.”

“Cisco is truly honored to be part of such an important team with the OpenChain Project.  The industry collaboration, synergies and betterment for our open chain community is revolutionary.  We are equally pleased to announce our conformance to this industry standard, as it enables our internal teams to understand ‘why’ behind the compliance rigor.  Having established internal policies, processes and tooling automation, which can be measured and benchmarked with OpenChain is one of our major value drivers.  We look forward to continuing our partnership with OpenChain Projects and our peer industry partners, as software innovates for years to come.” Samantha Elliott, Open Source Leader.

About Cisco

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About the OpenChain Project

The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the software supply chain.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. 

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Media Contacts

Shane Coughlan
+818040358083
scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org

The OpenChain Project has launched a series of bi-weekly free webinars that provide access to people and knowledge that we would otherwise obtain at events. To supplement these webinars we are preparing and releasing a series of contributor interviews alongside announcements.

Our first ‘OpenChain Webinar Condensed’ features Armijn Hemel explaining his new contribution of build instructions to the OpenChain Reference Library.

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library:

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

Check out the full webinar series

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

Andrew Katz, Managing Partner at Moorcrofts and CEO of Orcro (both OpenChain partners), will lead an OpenUK webinar on the topic of OpenChain in M&A. This issue is increasingly important in our eco-system, reflecting that outside of product procurement, structured open source compliance approaches are in demand and offer significant benefits.

Learn More on the OpenUK site

• https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/ma-and-open-chain/

MAY 27, SAN FRANCISCO – Today the OpenChain Project is delighted to announce OPPO as our latest Platinum Member. As a Platinum Member of the project OPPO will provide strategic oversight on the governing board, the steering committee and the outreach committee. While OpenChain has had an active China Work Group since 2019, OPPO is the first work group participant to join the project governing board, and their contribution will be invaluable as OpenChain becomes an ISO standard.

“The OpenChain Project has been extremely fortunate in working with a wide range of Chinese companies during the last 18 months,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our deep relationship with OPPO is a direct consequence of this, and with their help we are looking forward to inspiring and leading a diverse range of Chinese innovators, international manufacturers and global supply chain companies towards adoption of our industry standard. In the next few months we will see some transformative activities around OpenChain and more generally open source compliance. OpenChain will become an ISO standard. SPDX will increasingly be deployed for Software Bill of Materials. Open Source Reference Tooling will emerge for multiple sectors. I am looking forward to working with the team at OPPO to help ensure that companies of every size and in every market can continually have access to the most efficient, effective and appropriate approaches to managing open source.” 

“OPPO is delighted to join the OpenChain Project and establish a deeper engagement with the global open source community as our business and research effort grow,” Andy Wu, Vice President and President of Software Engineering Business Unit, OPPO. “With the presence of our smartphone and services in more than 40 global markets and research institutes across the world, OPPO looks forward to working with developers and partners through open source development and OpenChain Project, with its efficient and comprehensive solutions, tremendously increased the efficiency of our collaborative innovation. OPPO values openness and collaboration greatly and will be an active member in OpenChain Project to contribute to its long-term success and adoption with fellow partners.”

About OPPO

OPPO is a leading global smart device brand. Since the launch of its first mobile phone – “Smiley Face” – in 2008, OPPO has been in relentless pursuit of the perfect synergy of aesthetic satisfaction and innovative technology. Today, OPPO provides a wide range of smart devices spearheaded by the Find X and Reno series. Beyond devices, OPPO provides its users with the ColorOS operating system and internet services like OPPO Cloud and OPPO+. OPPO operates in more than 40 countries and regions, with 6 Research Institutes and 4 R&D Centers worldwide, as well as an International Design Center in London. More than 40,000 of OPPO’s employees are dedicated to creating a better life for customers around the world.

About the OpenChain Project

The OpenChain Project builds trust in open source by making open source license compliance simpler and more consistent. The OpenChain Specification defines a core set of requirements every quality compliance program must satisfy. The OpenChain Curriculum provides the educational foundation for open source processes and solutions, whilst meeting a key requirement of the OpenChain Specification. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to display their adherence to these requirements. The result is that open source license compliance becomes more predictable, understandable and efficient for participants of the software supply chain.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. 

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Media Contacts

Shane Coughlan
+818040358083
scoughlan@linuxfoundation.org

Sami Atabani, one of the founders of the OpenChain Project and our board member from Arm, will provide a webinar to the OpenUK Future Leaders’ Training series on OpenChain compliance. Catch him at 12pm UK Time (GMT+1) on May 22nd.

Learn More and Sign Up

• https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/intro-to-open-chain-compliance/