A message from our friends in the German Work Team.

We have finished a first draft of the German translation of the policy template. We invite you to have a look and provide feedback.

The translation is based on the official English document for the 2.0 specification from the reference material repository. Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library.

You can find the current draft of the translation in this Google document: 

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l51rSicu7SXSXEvX0TqqiSWko2LZrI0m/view?usp=sharing.

Feel free to comment there.

We have kept the original English text for now at the side because that makes it easier to compare and check the translation. In the final version this will be removed and only the German text will be kept.

As a spreadsheet it’s not ideal for detailed review of specific parts of the text. If it’s more convenient for you feel free to copy it into another form of document and comment there.

If you have any questions or would like to get involved you can also contact me or Stefan Thanheiser <stefan.thanheiser@fiduciagad.de> directly.

The plan for the next steps is to get the document a round of reviews, incorporate the resulting feedback, and then create a pull request to the reference material repository with the final version.

Cornelius Schumacher
Open Source StewardChief Technology Office (T.IVO)
DB Systel GmbH

The OpenChain UK Work Group is holding its second meeting via Zoom on Wednesday 30 September from 14:00 – 16:00 BST.

This meeting will build on the success of the inaugural meeting in July which attracted a stellar roster of speakers, including: Shane Coughlan (Linux Foundation), Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation), Hiroyuki Fukuchi (Sony), Andrew Katz (Orcro), Sami Atabani (Arm),Thomas Steenbergen (HERE Technologies) and Mirko Boehm, as well as a diverse range of delegates from around the world.

Bookings for the September meeting are now open and can be made via the Eventbrite booking form.

The meeting is free of charge, and is open to anyone (whether in the UK or otherwise) interested in finding out more about why companies as diverse as Arm, Google, Scania, Hitachi Data Systems, Toyota, Facebook, Uber and Microsoft are embracing OpenChain, as well as smaller companies like B2M Solutions and NewRoCo.

Andrew Katz, Joint Managing Partner of Moorcrofts, CEO of Orcro Limited and Chair of the OpenChain UK Work Group, said:

“We’re delighted to see such a high calibre of organisations and individuals involved in the group at the early stages. As we move forward, we hope to see smaller companies join, who are looking to start their OpenChain journey, so we can continue to broaden the reach of the group and OpenChain adoption in the UK.”

To join the OpenChain UK Work Group visit: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg and subscribe to the list to receive future details about the bi-monthly meetings and to sync and share information across all aspects of open source compliance. More information about the group can be found on its draft terms of reference document: https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/uk-wg/files.

This meeting of the OpenChain Korea Work group will take place on the day our ISO voting process wraps up! Expect exciting updates.

• Schedule: 2020-09-22 (Thu) 2:00~4:00 pm
• How to join on PC
  1. Access https://uberconference.com/openchainproject from a PC
  2. After entering Your Name, click “Join audio-only” to enter the room
  3. After checking the microphone and speaker settings on the Confirm settings screen> Join conference
• How to join on Phone 1.Call 02-6022-2388 from a mobile phone 2.Enter 855 889 3011#

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.

Read The Guide

• https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/en/guide/

Learn More About The OpenChain Korea Work Group

• https://openchain-project.github.io/OpenChain-KWG/en/

Learn More about NIPA, the Korean Government Agency

• https://www.nipa.kr/eng/index.do

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.”

Learn More About Open Source Security

• https://grsecurity.net/

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

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/specification

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

• https://groups.io/g/openchain-automotive-work-group

Check out the recording of the latest meeting below.

Learn More About This Work Group

• http://oss-compliance-tooling.com/