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.
During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.
Check Out The First Article
If you want to skip ahead, you can see the whole series here:
Newsletter – Issue 35 – March 2020
OpenChain Japan Work Group: Republishing the Advent Calendar
During the December 2019 period the OpenChain Japan Work Group ran a series of articles covering OpenChain, their work, and what it means to companies. We will be republishing this calendar in Japanese on the main OpenChain blog over the coming weeks, and we hope to share some English translations after that.
Check Out The First Article
If you want to skip ahead, you can see the whole series here:
OpenChain @ Translations
OpenChain @ GitHub
OpenChain @ Conformance
OpenChain @ Partners
OpenChain @ Work Groups
OpenChain @ Events
OpenChain @ In The News
The recent news regarding MOXA’s decision to become an OpenChain Platinum Member has spread through Chinese and Korean language media. Naturally these are very important geographic and linguistic areas for us. We hope these stories will be useful for our community in discussions inside companies, with other companies, and with the broader technology community.
DigiTimes (Traditional Chinese)
Control Engineering China (Simplified Chinese)
ICN Web (Korean)
OpenChain Project Request for Comments
Oliver, chair of our reference tooling work group, has started to draft best practices for license complaint containers. Have some thoughts? Want to help?
Engage via the Reference Tooling Mailing List
GTC Law and FOSSID, two official partners of the OpenChain Project, will host a webinar on March 26th 2020 at 9:30 am EST that covers open source software and code snippets: the benefits, the pratfalls, and how to use FOSSID tools to manage compliance and mitigate risks.
This webinar will dive into OpenChain and will explain the value proposition for businesses leveraging open source software in products or services.
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Shane Coughlan, General Manager of the Linux Foundation OpenChain Project, Keith Bergelt, OIN CEO, take a look at open source expectation & Open Source Software (OSS)-related behavior in the supply chain ecosystem for virtually every business and every industry in this week’s Open Source For You magazine.
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The founders of AlektoMetis, Prof. Dr. Andreas Bärwald and Nicole Pappler have been closely connected to the OpenChain project for several years. After successfully creating and launching the OpenChain 3rd party certification during their time at the TÜV SÜD Group, they now continue to provide software centric consulting and assessment services with AlektoMetis.
“We are very happy to be a partner of the OpenChain project.” says Prof. Dr. Andreas Bärwald, CEO of AlektoMetis. “This will enable us to continue our longstanding successful partnership in our new professional home and to work with our customers and cooperation partners. Open Source related topics are of increasing importance for our customers. Considering that nowadays added value is implemented mainly by software, competence with respect to software becomes increasingly important to companies of all sizes and industries. Including open source licensed components allows companies to concentrate on the creation of value by their own intellectual property while relying on open source for standard tasks. This requires a suitable FOSS governance process in the companies. On the basis of OpenChain we can support our customers exactly here”.
“Building a trusted supply chain depends greatly on having trusted partners,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “We need to know that our fellow user companies have adopted or are adopting the key requirements of quality open source compliance programs. We need to know that there is reference material to help them in this process. Lastly, we need to know that there is strong support infrastructure to ensure they can get solid legal, professional and certification advice as needed. Nicole and Andreas have long had a substantial presence and contribution to the OpenChain Project on the latter point, and our new official partnership is another milestone in building out this international standard.”
“The OpenChain community is quite a welcoming and inspiring place and I’m really excited to be part of the OpenChain partner network, seeing it growing and looking for the time to come.” Says Nicole Pappler, AlektoMetis representative in the OpenChain project. “Both engineering, quality management and legal experts are working together to create guidance and clear criteria to enable the license compliant usage of and contribution to open source projects for every industry player, no matter what size and background. It will be my very pleasure to contribute to OpenChain to see the three pillars of OpenChain certification – self certification, independent compliance assessment and 3rd party certification – grow into a most useful policy in the supply and release chain.”
About AlektoMetis
AlektoMetis, founded in 2019, offers consulting and assessment services in the areas of functional safety, software quality and processes. The associated AlektoMetis Academy will offer extensive online and offline seminars starting in the second half of 2020. Nicole Pappler represents AlektoMetis in the open source working group of the German IT industry association Bitkom, where she is a member of the board. Furthermore AlektoMetis supports the German working group of the OpenChain project.
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SAN FRANCISCO MARCH 24, 2020 – Today the OpenChain Project welcomes Lex Pan Law and Opsequio as our latest official partners. Lex Pan Law, a technology law firm based in the United States, has a long and deep background in intellectual property and free and open source licensing, as well as other associated corporate and business law issues like securing patent, copyright and trademark protection, IP portfolio strategy and development, strategic technology licensing, IP asset assessment and mergers & acquisition. Opsqeuio (www.opsequ.io), a virtual open source program office (OSPO) services company also based in the United States, has a long background in setting up and running software provenance and open source compliance programs in high technology organizations, and its services are designed to provide consultation and coverage for small-to-medium-sized organizations not yet ready to set up their own internal OSPO, and supplemental support for larger companies which have an existing OSPO.
Their partnership with the OpenChain Project marks another milestone in building out global support for user companies adopting our industry standard for open source compliance and provides a local resource for companies and organizations in the Pacific Northwest region of North America looking to adopt OpenChain practices or to become OpenChain conformant.
“OpenChain provides a wealth of resources for companies and organizations looking to adopt industry-leading practices around software compliance,” says McCoy Smith, Founding Attorney of Lex Pan Law and Founder of Opsequio. “As someone who has followed the development of OpenChain as a standard and as a community since its inception, I am thrilled for Lex Pan Law and Opsequio to become part of that community, and to help our clients and customers to take full advantage of everything OpenChain has to offer.”
“As OpenChain has seen increased adoption globally there has been a steady push for expanding the network of support available for user companies refining their compliance programs,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Our relationship with Lex Pan Law and Opsequio continues to bolster our position in both the North American and global market, particularly in the growing tech hubs in the Pacific Northwest, and it also formalizes our cooperative relationship in a manner aligned with the project’s strategic goals. I am looking forward to close collaboration with Lex Pan Law and Opsequio as we support our user companies in the global rollout of the OpenChain standard in the supply chain and the acceptance of OpenChain as an ISO standard later this year.”
About Lex Pan Law & Opsequio
Lex Pan Law (www.lexpan.law) is a full-service technology and intellectual property law firm, based in Portland, Oregon, USA, with over 35 years of experience in virtually every facet of technology and law, including extensive experience and community contacts in the free and open source licensing world (including software, hardware, and content). Opsequio (www.opsequ.io) offers virtual open source program office services, and has close to 20 years of experience in setting up, managing, and growing an open source program office in a multinational Fortune 50 technology company. Both organizations are led by McCoy Smith, a leading speaker and author on intellectual property issues and their intersection with free and open source licensing. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society (www.jolts.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. More information can be found at www.openchainproject.org.
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hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology
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provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project,
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Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir
The OpenChain Specification 2.0, the latest version of our industry standard for open source compliance, is now available in French. This official translation provides a reference to assist with understanding and engagement throughout companies.
OpenChain 2.0 is the latest version of our standard and it is functionally identical the the forthcoming ISO standard. This means that any company that conforms with OpenChain 2.0 will also be conformant with the ISO standard on release.
Big Thanks To Our Local Contributors
Special thanks to Camille, Tristan and Benjamin for finalizing this version.
Get the OpenChain Specification 2.0 in French
Join Our Translation Effort on GitHub
Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
The OpenChain Project Korea Work Group held its fifth meeting remotely on the 17th of March. A recording of Shane Coughlan’s opening speech is now available in English. While our project faces blanket disruptions to physical meetings, our community is using mailing lists, telephone conferences and other online collaboration tools to ensure we keep up momentum. Great thanks are due to everyone who is leading this effort!
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