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 Deloitte is the Latest Official OpenChain Partner

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Deloitte, a global leader in providing audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory services to companies, is the latest official OpenChain Partner.

“Open source license and security compliance has become an essential part of our clients’ supply chains. The OpenChain project has done an excellent job in providing best practices and governance guidelines that are reflected in ISO/IEC 5230 and ISO/IEC 18974,” says Sascha Pudenz, Senior Manager at Deloitte. “We are very pleased to become a contributing member of the OpenChain community and a third-party certifier. The opportunity to support the project and spread the principles throughout our internal and external network will also help drive maturity and awareness of the importance of these standards.” adds Robert Härtwig, Director at Deloitte.

“We are delighted to welcome Deloitte to our support ecosystem,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “The provision of services like third-party certification is a vital pillar of our standardization work, and helps to ensure open source process management is effective, coherent and builds trust in the supply chain. We look forward to working closely with their team in the months and years ahead to ensure the complexity of managing technology is reduced for companies of all sizes and in all markets.”

About Deloitte

Deloitte provides industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting, financial advisory, and risk advisory services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500® and thousands of private companies. Our professionals deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in capital markets, enable clients to transform and thrive, and lead the way toward a stronger economy, a more equitable society and a sustainable world. Building on its 175-plus year history, Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte’s approximately 415,000 people worldwide make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com.

New Online Conformance Checklists For All OpenChain Standards

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Today the OpenChain Project announces new online conformance checklists for all of our current license compliance and security assurance standards. These checklists allow any organization to quickly and privately check if they meet the requirements of a standard. They are a free service provided to the global supply chain to support trust between organizations.

Each checklist has a series of “yes” or “no” statements. If you can answer “yes” to everything, you are self-certified. If you answer “no” to some items, you know where to invest further time to build a quality program. The checklists allow you to save your progress and take up to 30 days to complete all the items.

After completing a checklist, you decide if we list you on our website or not. Of course, we hope to display more and more examples of adoption over time.

For License Compliance



For Security Assurance



For Other Variants Of These Standards



Get OpenChain Conformance Badges

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Today the OpenChain Project releases a new way for organizations to show their use of our license compliance and security assurance standards. If you use ISO/IEC 5230, ISO/IEC DIS 18974, OpenChain License Compliance 2.1 or OpenChain Security Assurance 1.1 you can fill out a simple form and get an official conformance badge.

This form is safe, secure and private. You decide if we list you on our website or not. Of course, we hope to display more and more examples of adoption over time.


OpenChain Korea Work Group Meeting #18 – Outcomes – 2023-06-22

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Shane Coughlan’s Keynote

Haksung, The Chair, Opens The Meeting

Seo-yeon – A Major Contributor – Gave A Great Talk As Usual

The Audience Was Dynamic And Attentive To All The Excellent Presentations

Also, Snacks

A Message From Seo-yeon Lee at LINE Plus.

안녕하세요 여러분! 라인의 이서연입니다.

어제는 잘 들어가셨나요~?

조금 더웠던 날씨에도 불구하고 모두들 에너지 넘치게 모임에 참석해주셔서 덕분에 이번에도 알찬 시간을 보낼 수 있었습니다. 

발표 준비에 수고해주신 발표자 여러분, 그리고 장소 준비에 힘써주신 카카오 크루 여러분께 다시 한 번 감사의 말씀 전합니다. 

어제 말씀드렸던 행사 피드백 설문조사를 보내드립니다. 아주 짧은 내용이오니 꼭 의견 보내주시면 다음 모임에 반영하도록 하겠습니다.

추가로 그룹토의 활동 결과물도 보내드립니다. 

OpenChain Webinar #52: Trusted Network Initiative – 2023-06-14 – 08:00 UTC / 16:00 CST / 17:00 KST + JST

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The 52nd OpenChain Webinar will cover a proposal from the Okinawa Open Labs in Japan to help “label” items in the supply chain to increase trust.

Our presenter will be MASANORI TSUJIKAWA (辻川公章) from Alaxala. 

Our topic will be the Trusted Network Introduction – Eco-system based Open Trust Chaining over existing value-chain and supply-chain.

Everyone can join from this link:
https://zoom.us/j/4377592799

OpenChain Automotive Work Group Meeting – Half Year Assessment – Future Market Strategy – 2023-06-14 @ 09:00 Eastern, 13:00 UTC, 15:00 CEST, 21:00 CST and 22:00 JST

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The next meeting of the OpenChain Automotive Work Group is scheduled for June 14th at 08:00 Central, 09:00 Eastern, 13:00 UTC, 15:00 CEST, 21:00 CST and 22:00 JST.

Schedules permitting, we will be having case studies from North American and Asian automotive experts. We want to have a particular focus on the practical aspects of managing open source in large manufacturers with complex automotive supply chains.

Our agenda will be lead by our Chair, Masato Endo of Toyota in Japan, and Russ Eling of OSS Consultants in the USA. As usual, this will be a live event, and everyone is free to join.

When

Wednesday (2023-06-14) @ 09:00 Eastern, 13:00 UTC, 15:00 CEST, 21:00 CST and 22:00 JST

Location

https://zoom.us/j/4377592799

NORDEMANN is the Latest OpenChain Partner

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NORDEMANN, a law firm based in Germany, is the latest official OpenChain Partner. Based in Berlin, NORDEMANN combines a team with a long pedigree of legal provision with a clear, modern vision for making the complex simple.

“NORDEMANN as an IP/IT boutique law firm from Germany is committed to excellence in its work for its clients, such as IT companies and other industries using open source and contributing to such projects”, says founding partner Christian Czychowski, Honorary Professor at the University of Potsdam. “We are happy to now underline such excellence by having been accepted as partner of the renown OpenChain industry standard for open source compliance. By that can be part of this great community around the globe that sets the rules which help to build the all important trust in supply chains.”

“We are delighted to welcome the NORDEMANN team to the our official partner program,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “The availability of reputable legal advice is a key pillar in the effective market growth of our standards for open source license compliance and security assurance. The delivery of more choice in the German market marks a further milestone in the maturity of the OpenChain ecosystem.”

Learn More About NORDEMANN On Their Website

OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2023-05-25 – Overview and Recording

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The OpenChain Legal Work Group is exploring model provisions for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 or ISO/IEC DIS 18974 in procurement contracts and similar material. We decided to proceed via mirroring the format of the pre-existing public domain Risk Grid:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/General-Compliance-Support-Material/Risk-Grid

Our Current Draft Language Is Hosted On GitHub

Here Is The Recording Of Our Latest Meeting

Check Out The Slides

The Next Meeting Will Take Place In June

Currently scheduled for June 29th at 09:00 PDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST / 00:00 CST / 01:00 KST + JST

Keep Up-To-Date

Join our mailing list to track our work and contribute to the development of the model provisions:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/legal-wg

Reminder:

The goal is to ensure people can understand options. We will not be prescriptive and these model provisions will remain part of the OpenChain reference material. They will not be included in the standards themselves.

China Roadshow: OpenChain Open Source Governance Conference – 2023-06-03

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The OpenChain Project, in collaboration with CAICT, SecTrend and Huawei, will host a governance conference in Shenzhen on the 3rd of June. We have a stellar schedule that will cover all aspects of open source management and processes. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, will be there to provide a global perspective, and our local speakers will provide deep insight into matters of key strategic concern to the Chinese market.

OpenChain @ IAM

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Jimmy Ahlberg (OpenChain Chairperson) and Eleftheria Stefanaki have published an article entitled ‘Efficient IP management in a market increasingly using open source’ on IAM.

From The Article

Imagine finding out that 90% of the software in your products is not yours but only licensed in as third-party IP.  As soon as you start reading the agreements, you realise some of them contain terms you are not familiar with or have never even heard of before, such as “source code”, “binary”, “object code”, and “system libraries”. Moreover, you cannot find basic contractual provisions such as “governing law” or “jurisdiction” in the agreements. These agreements (and there are hundreds of them) are all different, non-negotiable, ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ standard template licences.

[…]

Against this background, this article describes the significance of open source management in the context of IP management. We would like to introduce you to the OpenChain Specification 2.1 (ISO/IEC 5230:2020) on open source licence compliance, and the benefits of implementing such a programme within the framework of your existing IP management.

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