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.
A new guide created by the OpenChain Korea Work Group in collaboration with NIPA, a Korean government agency, explains how local companies can easily and effectively comply with the OpenChain specification. This guide was prepared based on the following documents:
The OpenChain Project Website
The OpenChain Specification 2.0
The OpenChain Open Source Policy Template
The book by Ibrahim Haddad entitled ‘Open Source Compliance In The Enterprise’
The guide will be revised after the ISO/IEC JTC1 PAS Transposition Process when the OpenChain specification becomes a formal International Standard.
Open Source Security, the company behind grsecurity – a security enhancement to the Linux kernel – has announced an OpenChain conformant program.
“While Open Source Security, Inc. has always taken license compliance seriously and involved highly-qualified legal counsel in drafting our company’s policies in compliance with those licenses, we recently became aware of the OpenChain project and its efforts in formalizing compliance practices within organizations using and improving Free and Open Source software,” says Bradley Spengler, President at Open Source Security. “Having verifiable documentation of our operating and review procedures became top of mind for us as we embark on expanding our operations. Formalizing the policies to include licenses and activities we are not yet involved in left us prepared for the future and was well-received by the team, particularly our junior staff. We thank the OpenChain project for providing a well-thought-out, comprehensive, and accessible standard to help organizations formalize and communicate their compliance practices.”
“The OpenChain industry standard is designed to help companies in all sectors address the issue of process management around the exceptional potential of open source,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “It is great to welcome Open Source Security into the fold with the announcement of another OpenChain conformant program. We look forward to future collaboration as our standard is increasingly adopted in their domain.”
The OpenChain Project now has official merchandise! You will find everything from t-shirts to tote-bags to phone cases to mugs in our store. Everything is priced at cost with Threadless. Logos, penguins, country teams and a special global team image. It is all there.
Check Out The Zero Profit Store!
https://openchainproject.threadless.com/
OpenChain @ Partners
On August 4, 2020 the OpenChain Project announced Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company as the latest participant in the growing partner program. Wipro will provide an important bridge between companies seeking to adopt the OpenChain industry standard for compliance and the implementation of quality open source compliance programs. https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/08/04/wipro-limited-is-the-latest-openchain-partner
Seth Newberry from the Joint Development Foundation joined us to provide an overview of what they do, how it impacts OpenChain, and what it means for other open source and related projects moving forward. As always we had some great comments and questions, and we look forward to getting more over time via our mailing lists and meetings!
The recording of our regular bi-weekly Specification Work Team is now available. This is where people can provide input on the current version of the standard, suggest new reference material, and also provide suggestions for our future.
You can join the Specification Mailing List to follow all the activity
The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held a European/Asian meeting on the 18th of August. This meeting focused on discussions around SPDX and tooling in the automotive sphere. Check out the full recording below.
Everyone is invited to join the Automotive Work Group
OpenChain has been featured in a host of webinars recently. Here is one sent in from our friends at Source Code Control in the UK. Martin joined a team of experts to talk about Application Modernization and how OpenChain fits into the process picture.
This webinar was a live walk-through of the Conformance Questionnaire with example solutions to each question required for OpenChain conformance. It was designed to be immediately useful to any organization considering or undergoing OpenChain conformance.
The OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group meets bi-weekly to discuss open source tools for open source compliance. There are frequent demos and discussions around practical use. This is a good place to engage if you are considering open source tooling for your compliance activities.
This video is intended to give you an example of what our community gets up to in this area.
