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.
Jan Thielscher and his team at EACG have prepared a one-slide overview of the OpenChain Project. Clear, easy-to-digest communication is critical as OpenChain expands and our industry standard for open source compliance is more widely adopted. We deeply appreciate all the work by our users and partners in helping with this process.
The EACG overview material is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. It is not part of our CC-0 reference library but it is freely available.
Get It Here
As part of the OpenChain Project’s ongoing commitment to providing a large library of useful reference material, and thanks to the kind contribution of Ibrahim Haddad, we are delighted to release a series of draft worksheets to help companies with their governance activities. This material is sourced from Ibrahim’s book ‘Assessment Of Open Source Practices As Part Of Due Diligence In Merger and Acquisition Transactions’. You can get the full book for free on the Linux Foundation website.
The Draft Worksheets Cover
As usual this additions to the OpenChain Project library are under CC-0. We look forward not only to your use of this material, but also your help in further improving it over time.
Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
The OpenChain Project is delighted to highlight that Yoma Bank is the latest organization to have a publicly announced OpenChain conformant program. Yoma Bank joins many other companies from a diverse range of market sectors collaborating to make open source compliance faster, more effective and more efficient.
Founded in 1993, Yoma Bank is Myanmar’s most progressive domestic bank. It offers savings products, a wide range of loans and business solutions to individuals, SMEs and local corporate clients to fund their business operations in Myanmar. With over 25 years of being responsible bank, Yoma Bank has been consistently making significant investments in strategic priorities- people, technology and corporate governance. Yoma Bank stands in the top 5 banks in Myanmar by assets with 3000+ employees and 80+ branches across the country.
“Yoma Bank is a natural fit for OpenChain conformance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their commitment to quality, to ethical banking, and to innovation will be familiar to every company working in the open source community. We look forward to using this opportunity to build out more relationships in Myanmar and beyond.”
More About Yoma Bank
Yoma Bank strives to fulfill its mission to “Build a better Myanmar for its people” financing the needs of Myanmar families and businesses. All the operations led by the Bank are centered around its core values such as Customer, Integrity, Respect, Teamwork and Innovation. Yoma Bank has also established strong partnership with both local and international organisations leveraging strategic advantages in its services. For more information, please visit www.yomabank.com.
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.
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SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH 5, 2020 – The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that id est avocats is our latest partner organization. A boutique corporate and technology law firm based in Switzerland, id est avocats provides an exceptional bridge into industry sectors where OpenChain will become increasingly important.
id est avocats has a strong track record helping innovative businesses, successful entrepreneurs, top VCs and global brands navigate today’s digital world, and is also regularly trusted by large Swiss and international companies for their expertise in technology, life sciences and media sectors, but also in M&A transactions and financing.
“Open source has always been in the firm’s DNA; becoming a partner of OpenChain is for us a natural step” says Michel Jaccard, id est avocats’ founder and partner. “With its focus on excellence and on building positive long-term relationships, there is also a clear alignment in values between our firm and the OpenChain Project” adds Juliette Ancelle, who heads the IP practice at the firm.
The OpenChain standard defines inflection points in business workflows where a compliance process, policy or training should exist to minimize the potential for errors and maximize the efficiency of bringing solutions to market. The companies involved in the OpenChain community number in the hundreds. The OpenChain standard is being prepared for submission to ISO and evolution from de facto into a formal standard this year.
“The OpenChain Project has a strong emphasis on ensuring the support infrastructure for adoption is as comprehensive as possible as we complete the ISO process,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Michel Jaccard and the team at id est avocats have exceptional knowledge in this field and provide us with a substantial increase in coverage and knowledge throughout the OpenChain Partner Program.”
About id est avocats
id est avocats (www.idest.pro) is an award winning boutique law firm based in Switzerland, specialized in advanced technologies, intellectual property, corporate finance and acquisitions. The firm places industry knowledge at the heart of its activity and enjoys well-established relationships with global brands, prominent entrepreneurs, institutional investors, international groups and many CEOs and owners of businesses that it has assisted in growth, acquisitions, combinations, restructurings, and exits. The firm regularly interacts with law firms from across the world, and is well connected with multinational practices based in key European markets, in the United States and in Asia.
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.
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
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Linux is a registered trademark
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The OpenChain Project has a comprehensive reference library covering all aspects of open source compliance management, including numerous resources related to training, policy and process content. This official and community-sourced reference material has been extensively reordered to allow easier discovery of content and to provide a multi-language first approach.
This involved consolidating 43 repositories into 1 to ensure anyone can quickly access, download, share and remix our extensive CC-0 material, while also being able to access, download and share case studies and similar material under different licenses.
At the same time as reorganizing the 395 documents in the reference library we took the opportunity to make the official Specification and translation easier to browse, to make our community image assets simpler to access, and to locate the project charter and other official agreements in a single location.
We invite you to check out the results and to help us expand, improve and translate the material ahead of becoming an ISO standard.
All Reference Material and Translations in One Location
Our Official Specification and All Community Translations
Our Community Image Assets
Our Project Charter and Official Agreements
We invite you to check out the results and to help us expand, improve and translate the material ahead of becoming an ISO standard.
We had an excellent OpenChain Global First Monday call. It covered a lot of news and we had a robust, useful discussion on some items in the specification.
Review the Agenda
Watch the Video Minutes
All Our Agenda Slides and Minutes
Newsletter – Issue 34 – February 2020
We are delighted to announce that Moxa is our latest Platinum Member company. As a leading provider of industrial edge-to-cloud connectivity and computing solutions for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments, Moxa has demonstrated its continuous commitment to open source compliance to enable advanced industrial networking and communications applications for the IIoT world.
“Moxa is thrilled to join the OpenChain Project to demonstrate our commitment in supporting open source compliance standard,” said Andy Cheng, President of Strategic Business Unit at Moxa. “Moxa has been a strong supporter of the Linux Foundation for some of its important projects such as Civil Infrastructure Project (CIP) for long-term support Linux distribution. We are now looking forward to working closely with the OpenChain community for industry standards of open source compliance.”
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PwC offers Open Source Software management compliance attestation according to the OpenChain industry standard. Thanks to a global PwC reporting platform, the report can be made available to all clients, effectively demonstrating the professional and appropriate handling of Open Source Software.
Suppliers will benefit from PwC OSS certification in invitations to tender, in the initiation of contracts and in negotiations with purchasing departments. At the same time, they will benefit from the outwardly presentable proof of OSS compliance when selling their products and services, as they create confidence in their products
Specifics on PwC OpenChain Services
Check Out the Case Study Created for OpenChain
More About Their Open Source Work
The OpenChain Japan Work Group has run an active licensing sub-work group throughout 2019. Their activity has been focused on practical applications of a streamlined Software Bill of Materials using core attributes of SPDX. Now that the work is advanced, collaboration with the SDPX Project is fully established, and we are heading into production it is time to highlight the individuals behind this initiative.
Great Thanks are Due To
Taima-san from Pioneer is the senior contributor to this effort who defined the initial fields based on a practical business use case.
Nomura-san from Hitachi, Ito-san from Renesas and Ouchi-san from Fujitsu proposed improvements to the SPDX Lite description and format.
Kobota-san from Sony took lead on confirming full compatibility between SPDX and SPDX Lite.
And of course Fukuchi-san from Sony proposed the original concept, formed the sub-work group, and wrote the proposal of SPDX Lite.
In addition to these contributors all the members of “license info” sub-group contributed to the work and final go-to-market activity.
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The 5th meeting of the OpenChain Korean Work Group scheduled to be hosted by Kakao in Seoul on the 19th of March has been cancelled. The cancellation is due to COVID-19 and joins recent cancellations of face-to-face work group meetings in China and Japan.
We are exploring the possibility of holding the meeting via teleconference. Most details to follow soon.
More Information on the Korea Mailing List
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