This webinar discusses how Inner Source approaches can benefit Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs).
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This is OpenChain Webinar #43, released on 2022-06-19.
Webinar: Challenges and Opportunities for SCA Vendors in China + Quantifying Open Source Risk in M&A
This webinar explores how SCA and tooling vendors in China are addressing the local market, and how open source risk can be managed around M&A.
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This is OpenChain Webinar #42, released on 2022-06-14.
Dirk Riehle will deliver our 43rd webinar as we explore Inner Source and the OSPO. He will introduce inner source, its significance for the open source program office, and how to quantify and solve the problem of intellectual property value flows inside companies.
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The OpenChain Project is committed to helping companies around the world experience a trusted supply chain. As part of this, our community develops and releases a ton of reference material to provide context, examples and training.
In our latest training course you can learn how open source compliance management systems should be structured and implemented to be most effective. Take the course for free over at LF Training and get a badge to mark your completion.
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This is our second training course. You can obtain more foundational knowledge for free right here:
Ahead of the results of the main OpenChain Industry Survey 2022, we wanted to share the results of an earlier survey we held at the OpenChain IP Summit. We have twelve responses (around 22% of the audience).
These results include some interesting insights into company focus and evolution SBOM, OSPO/SCA collaboration, and the use of tooling.
Check the results out below.
Main interest:
33% Copyright
0% Patents
67% Copyright and Patents
Was this event directly relevant to your work?
100% Yes
Is tooling (automaton) something critical to your work?
92% Yes
8% No
Is the use of SBOM a reality for your supply chain today?
67% Yes
17% No
17% Partially
Does your OSPO collaborate closely with your SCA team?
67% Yes
0% No
25% Not Applicable
Do you collaborate with other companies to share SCA, SBOM or tooling approaches?
25% Yes
33% No
42% To a limited extent
SECTREND, a Chinese company providing SCA services, is the latest company to join the OpenChain Partner community. As a leading vendor inside the Chinese market, their engagement marks another important step in ensuring freedom of choice around tooling for license compliance, security and other matters.
“We are thrilled to join the OpenChain with other participating members around the globe in the open source landscape,” says Alex Xue, Founder & CEO, SECTREND. “Since 2016, OpenChain has been innate to provide companies of all sizes in all markets a trusted and consistently compliant open source supply chain. SECTREND, together with OpenChain, will provide the open source community with plethora of contributions pertaining to tooling, training, research, best practices and consulting. The collaborative DNA of open source community and the OpenChain project will enable us to leverage the best-in-class resources from peers in all industries. We believe that such engagement and involvement will make the software supply chain more secure and reliable.”
“China is the largest single market in the world in terms of population, and the single most important part of the global supply chain,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “SECTREND represents the evolution of local leadership around open source. Adjacent to shipping products there is the need to continually refine processes in their support. SCA has been an essential part of this at the opening of our decade and it will remain pivotal in the years ahead.”
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Sometimes people worry that open source compliance is going to be difficult or expensive. This is a valid concern but it is also one we can quickly address. Open source has been used commercially for decades. All the expensive learning has been completed around licensing, and it is being shared by organizations around the world. After all, our goal is contribution, and cheap, effective compliance is part of that.
This guide from CAICT contains some open source compliance guidelines to help you get started. Think of it as a lighthouse to help guide your journey. The experience contained here will save you time and money. Most importantly, it will open more doors (and more code) to accelerate your products and your innovation.
— Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager
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ZTE, a global leader in telecommunications and information technology, has obtained OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformance with the assistance of CAICT. This third-party certification is a landmark in expressing both dedication to excellent in process management and leadership in open source by a Chinese multi-national company.
“ZTE operates in over 160 countries and serves one fourth of the world’s population with current and next-generation technology solutions,” says Xiang Shuming, Director of Compliance and Security Governance, ZTE. “Open source is a pivotal part of our ability to innovate, and we are committed to being at the forefront of management as well as development in this field. We are proud to announce our OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 certification and we look forward to continuing to work with CAICT and the OpenChain Project in the years ahead.”
“CAICT began our OpenChain third-party certification project in Q1 2022 as an official partner of the OpenChain Project,” says Guo Xue, Deputy director , CAICT. “ZTE is the fourth company – and the largest so far – that we have collaborated with in certification. We are deeply appreciative both of their commitment to excellence in open source, and with the spirit of community that ZTE and other recent Chinese conformant organizations have expressed. Chinese companies have always been significantly engaged with open source, and we are entering a new era of global leadership.”
“It has been an exceptional year for the OpenChain Project in China. We have strong leadership from OpenChain board member companies like OPPO, Huawei and HONOR, and a fantastic community with 220 participants,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Working with CAICT and with all types of other contributor in our China Work Group has been both productive and rewarding. Today’s announcement regarding ZTE conformance is part of this story, and it is a lighthouse to help inspire companies inside China and far beyond its borders. We are grateful for all the work that has been done, and we look forward to all the work we will do together in the years ahead.”
About the OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project maintains the International Standard for open source license compliance. This allows companies of all sizes and in all sectors to adopt the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. This is an open standard and all parties are welcome to engage with our community, to share their knowledge, and to contribute to the future of our standard.
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.
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The OpenChain Project will hold its 42nd webinar on the 30th of May at 14:00 UTC. Our special guest will be Phil Odence from Synopsys with a deep dive into Quantifying Open Source Risk in M&A.
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