This webinar covered the concept of preparing for adoption of ISO 5230 via readiness assessments. This approach can provide a company with a structured way of allocating resources to improve their open source management.
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This is OpenChain Webinar #27, released on 2021-07-27.
The OpenChain Mini-Summit discusses all things OpenChain ISO 5230, as well as related projects and activities such as SPDX. You can expect a focus on security, Software Bill of Materials and automation. All welcome.
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2021-07-14 – SAN FRANCISCO – Over the past years, Bosch was actively involved in the forming and promoting the new ISO Standard. As an OpenChain conformant enterprise, Bosch rolled out its new corporate open source regulations requiring meeting all ISO5320 conditions concerning open source management processes and policies.
“With OpenChain we have a common framework and a common terminology for Open Source Compliance,” states Hans Malte Kern, Head of the Bosch Center of Competence Open Source. “A wide adaptation by companies across all industries could help to further expand seamless value chains. It is the key building block to establish trust in using Open Source.”
“Bosch is a pivotal company in the automotive sphere due to both its strong product portfolio and its stance as a dedicated, reliable partner,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their formal adoption of OpenChain ISO 5230 builds on years of productive engagement as a thought-leader in this space. We are delighted to collaborate on the next steps in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the automotive software supply chain.”
About Bosch
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 395,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2020). The company generated sales of 71.5 billion euros in 2020. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.”
About OpenChain
The OpenChain Project maintains the International Standard for open source license compliance. This allows companies of all sizes and in all sectors to adopt the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. This is an open standard and all parties are welcome to engage with our community, to share their knowledge, and to contribute to the future of our standard.
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.
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2021-07-08 – San Francisco – Samsung Electronics announces adoption of OpenChain ISO 5230, the International Standard for open source compliance. They join a growing community of companies in the consumer electronics, automotive, cloud computing and telecommunications field in using this standard to manage supply chains.
“Samsung Electronics has been consistently striving to build an open source compliance process. Our adoption of OpenChain ISO 5230 reflects our ongoing commitment to excellence in our field,” says Daniel Park, Head of Open Source Group. “OpenChain has greatly helped improve the efficiency and confidence of the process. We are pleased to be a part of OpenChain and sincerely look forward to further developing this standard with our peers and suppliers.”
“Open source provides an unmatched platform for innovation,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “To get the most out of this platform the key is to have effective, efficient processes. OpenChain ISO 5230 delivers this for license compliance activities. We are delighted to welcome Samsung Electronics to our community of conformance. Their leadership in this area will help accelerate our mission throughout the supply chain.”
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About Samsung Electronics
Samsung inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies. The company is redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, digital appliances, network systems, and memory, system LSI, foundry and LED solutions. For the latest news, please visit the Samsung Newsroom at news.samsung.com.
About OpenChain
The OpenChain Project maintains the International Standard for open source license compliance. This allows companies of all sizes and in all sectors to adopt the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. This is an open standard and all parties are welcome to engage with our community, to share their knowledge, and to contribute to the future of our standard.
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.
This webinar covered a lot of ground with open hardware, new open source automation from Korea and methods of using SPDX with the Yocto Project. It provided a solid way to “take the pulse” of a certain moment in open source governance.
Plus…
The LG Electronics video on FOSSLight
The full LG Electronics presentation
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This is OpenChain Webinar #26, released on 2021-07-07.

The OpenChain Korean Work Group has created a page to highlight a series of videos from their meeting. Big thanks to Soim for all the editing.
In this webinar we had two great talks and a very active Q&A. First we had Dr. Till Jaeger from JBB Rechtsanwälte on ‘How to bring an ancient development project into compliance best practices.’ This was followed by Nicole Pappler from AlektoMetis ‘OpenChain ISO 5230 and Software Quality Management.’ Check out the full recording below.
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This is OpenChain Webinar #25, released on 2021-06-23.
