Our monthly North America / Europe meeting for March saw continued discussion around the OpenChain Specification Editing Process. Helio and Chris (Co-Chairs of the Specification Work Group) explored topics related to previously mentioned and new issues. Full recording below. All activity captured on GitHub.
The OpenChain Export Control Work Group held its third meeting on the 7th of March at 08:00 UTC. The focus was on reviewing the new volunteer project being set up at https://github.com/crypto-law-survey to explore the continuation of Bert’s http://www.cryptolaw.org/ as a general community resource.
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This OpenChain Webinar featured a FOSDEM recap by Philippe Ombredanne of NexB for everyone who did not attend the event in Belgium at the start of 2023. In 2023 FOSDEM had over 8,000 participants and 771 presentations, making it one of the largest open source events in the world by a large margin. This webinar will be of particular interest to people exploring open source tooling for open source compliance or security.
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This is OpenChain Webinar #49, released on 2023-03-07.
Newsletter – Issue 51 – February 2023
The OpenChain Newsletter provides a monthly summary of our work. It contains an overview of what we are doing to build trust around license compliance and security in the open source supply chain. This is a community newsletter, so we accept suggestions and ideas, and you can contact us by mail at any time.
Cool Statistic To Start The Year
The OpenChain Project now has 10 official third-party certifiers for our license compliance and security assurance standards.
You can now get third-party certified with ISO/IEC 5230 or the OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 anywhere in the world… and you have plenty of choice about who to work with. Of course, you have options when adopting our standards. The most common thing is actually for companies to start with self-certification, so if you are new to this… Learn more here)
Nice Outreach News
OpenChain now has a Wikipedia page about ISO/IEC 5230. Huge thank you to Marc-Etienne Vargenau at Nokia for making this happen.
Huge Revamp Of OpenChain Material Underway
Our reference library of over 1,000 documents to help you learn about our standards, train people or suppliers around open source, get policy templates, self-certification checklists and more has been totally overhauled. It is now easier to find material, easier to share material and easy to translate material.
We have also dramatically improved our community calendar to make it much easier to find our events, webinars and more.
ISO/IEC 5230:2020 Conformance
Yes Security and Panx Project announced adoption of our ISO/IEC standard for open source license compliance via the OpenChain website. Both companies self-certified. Yes Security is the first company from Brazil to announce conformance via our website. Well done!
Partner News
It was an exciting month for us on the partner side of things. First of all, we had OSPOCO and Taylor English Join The OpenChain Partner Program, and we had TIMETOACT GROUP Offer Open Source Certification Based On ISO/IEC 5230. However, the banner headline (as mentioned in the cool statistic section of this newsletter) is that we now have 10 official third-party certifiers around the world.
OpenChain Meetings And Events
Lots of recordings and minutes for those catching up this month.
Our global calls – where we edit the next generations of the license compliance and security assurance standards:
- OpenChain Monthly Meeting (North America – Europe) – 2023-02-07
- OpenChain Monthly Meeting (North America and Asia) 2023-02-21
Other community meetings:
- OpenChain Telco Special Interest Group – 2023-02-02
- OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #26 (Hybrid #1) – 2023-02-09
- OpenChain Education Work Group Meeting 2023-02-09
- OpenChain OSPO Subgroup Meeting / TODO Local Meetup Minutes 2023-02-10
- OpenChain OSPO Subgroup Meeting / TODO Local Meetup Minutes – 2023-02-17
- OpenChain Germany OpenChain Germany – LF Training Courses Translation Project 2024-02-24
On the “external collaboration” side of things we had an OSS Compliance in 2022 / 2023 event co-organized with FOSSID. We were also featured with a speech and Q&A session at an OpenAnolis Standardization SIG Meeting in China at the invitation of Alibaba.
Webinars
This month we had two webinars. One covered new security tools and one unpacked fascinating data points around GPLv2 licensing. Did you know there have been 40 versions of the GPLv2 published on its official websites and there have been 12 different versions found in the Linux Kernel? Definitely a webinar to watch if you are interested in the licensing side of things.
- Automation Case Study #7 – VulnerableCode technical deep dive into VulnTotal
- OpenChain Webinar #48 – GPLv2 Licensing History
Want to join our calls? Watch our webinars? Just check out our global calendar.
Training Material In The Supply Chain
Last month we mentioned that Continental Corporation made LFC193 a required course for their software developers from late Q3 2022. Since then we had two other soft announcements from community members about their adoption.
Coming Soon
For those wanting a sample of what’s on the community calendar for March…
- Coming Soon: OpenChain Webinar #49 – FOSDEM Recap – 2023-03-06
- Coming Soon: OpenChain Japan – OSPO Local Meetup – 2023-03-10 and 2023-03-24
- Coming Soon: OpenChain Export Control Work Group – Third Meeting – 2023-03-07
- Coming Soon: OpenChain Korea Work Group Meeting @ Line Plus – 2023-03-28
- Coming Soon: OpenChain UK Work Group Meeting @ BBC – 2023-03-28
- Coming Soon: OpenChain Germany Work Group Meeting – 2023-03-30
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The OpenChain Export Control Work Group will hold its third meeting on the 7th of March at 08:00 UTC. The focus will be on reviewing the new volunteer project being set up at https://github.com/crypto-law-survey to help explore the continuation of Bert’s work on http://www.cryptolaw.org/ as a general community resource.
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The OpenChain Reference Library has been significantly updated to improve navigation. This is an administrative item that was pending for a while. Its completion should make it possible (and easy!) for anyone to access our library and find material. It should also make it a lot easier for our Education Work Group to assess and improve or expand existing material.
Access The Repository
The New Structure
- Adoption-Case-Studies
- Adoption-Preparation
- Education-For-Internal-Teams
- Education-For-Suppliers
- General-Compliance-Support-Material
- General-Tooling-Support-Material
- Getting-Started
- Official-Project-FAQ
- Official-Project-Templates
- Self-Certification
- Training-Courses
Some Notes
This new structure is designed to overcome discoverability issues with the previous repository and to make it easier for continual improvement both of individual documents and for the navigation of the repository as a whole. This means that your feedback, suggestions and help are most welcome. You can leave feedback and ideas for improvement as GitHub issues or via our Education Work Group mailing list.
The OpenChain Project is officially featured on Wikipedia in three languages:
Example of the text in English:
ISO/IEC 5230 (known as OpenChain) is an international standard on the key requirements for a high-quality open source license compliance program. The standard was published jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in late 2020. The standard is based on the Linux Foundation OpenChain Specification 2.1. It focuses on software supply chains, easier procurement and license compliance. Organizations that meet the requirements of the standard can self-certify to ISO/IEC 17021, from an accredited certification body or after successfully completing an audit.
We would love your help in reviewing and improving this new resource to help spread understanding of our standard for open source license compliance, and expanding our presence over time to include the OpenChain Security Assurance Specification. You can do so through the normal Wikipedia editing process. Here is an example for the English page.
Huge thanks to Marc-Etienne Vargenau at Nokia for leading this process. He put a lot of effort into making this happen, and is due great credit for helping to improve the supply chain through easily available educational material.
Our latest monthly meeting for North America / Asia continues where we left off on the North America / Europe call earlier this month (see https://www.openchainproject.org/news/2023/02/10/monthly-meeting-2023-02-07-recording). The focus was work around the next generation of the Security Assurance Specification.
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On this call we addressed the following issues with the Security Assurance Specification 2.0 Draft:
- We prepared and refined definitions of remediation and mitigation:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues/22 - We included “remediation” and “mitigation” in Section 3.1.5:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues/25 - We included “mitigation” in Section 3.3.2:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues/26 - We clarified the “Get Customer” requirement in Section 3.3.2 to make the logic clearer:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Security-Assurance-Specification/issues/27
All of the issues appear “done” but naturally you can access, review and reopen on GitHub. We will also be speaking about these topics on the next call for North America / Europe on the 1st Tuesday of March. See our Global Calendar for the precise schedule:
https://www.openchainproject.org/participate
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