Monthly Newsletter

​ Newsletter – Issue 62 – January 2024

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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

The OpenChain Project in 2023 – Annual Report

The OpenChain Project in 2024 – Where We Go Next

• Dave Marr Announced as OpenChain Chair Emeritus
• Software Security Technology Co., Ltd. announces an ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program
• Shanghai Development Center of Computer Software Technology Software Engineering Institute announces an ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program
• China Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (CIC) officially adds OpenChain Third-Party Certification to their Partnership

Outreach

• OpenChain @ FinTech Sub-Forum of Shanghai Open Source Summit

Webinars

• Webinar: FOSS License Management through aliens4friends in Eclipse Oniro

Meetings

Our community released the following meeting recordings via our main channel:

• OpenChain Monthly North America / Europe Call – January 2024 (2024-01-09)
• OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2024-01-09
• OpenChain Telco Work Group – Morning Meeting – 2024-01-11
• OpenChain Telco Work Group – Afternoon Meeting – 2024-01-11
• OpenChain Monthly North America / Asia Call – January 2024 (2024-01-16)
• OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2024-01-17
• OpenChain AI Study Group – Kick-Off Call – 2024-01-23

Note: Some community meetings are not recorded or are released through other channels

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​ Newsletter – Issue 61 – December 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

OpenChain Welcomes ISO/IEC 18974:2023
The International Standard For Open Source Security Assurance

• Honda Announces an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program
• CIC is the latest Official OpenChain Partner

Outreach

• OpenChain – Special Strategic – Licensing, Security and Export Control Compliance Workshop 2023
• OpenChain @ 52nd CHIZAI (IP) Seminar

Webinars

• Webinar: The Open Source Initiative

Meetings

Our community held the following meetings:

• OpenChain Export Control Work Group – 2023-12-05
• OpenChain Governing Board and Steering Committee Meeting 2023-12-06
• AI Study Group Planning Call 2023-12-13
• OpenChain Education Work Group 2023-12-14
• OpenChain Monthly Community Call North America / Asia – 2023-12-19

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​ Newsletter – Issue 60 – November 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

• Korea Telecom (KT) Announces an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program
• KakaoBank Announces an ISO/IEC 18974 Conformant Program
• Vectoverse LTD Announces OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program
• LSware Announces An OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program

Outreach

• OpenChain @ FOSSLight Community Day 2023-11-30

Webinars

• No recording released this month.

Meetings

Our community held the following meetings:

• OpenChain North America – Europe Call – 2023-11-07
• OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2023-11-07
• OpenChain Education Work Group Call – 2023-11-09
• OpenChain Monthly North America and Asia Call – 2023-11-21
• OpenChain UK Work Group Meeting – 2023-11-28

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​ Newsletter – Issue 59 – October 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

• Bobble AI has announced an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program

Outreach

• OpenChain October – A Video Project
• OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #29 (Hybrid #4) – 2023-10-05 @ SocioNext in Kyoto
• OpenChain Open Source Seminar China – 2023-10-16

Webinars

• None this month.

Meetings

Our community held the following meetings:

• OpenChain Monthly Meeting North America and Europe – 2023-10-03
• OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2023-10-03
• OpenChain Automation Work Group – 2023-10-04
• OpenChain Telco Work Group – 2023-10-05
• OpenChain Monthly Meeting North America and Asia – 2023-10-17

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​ Newsletter – Issue 58 – September 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

• Suzhou PrismAurora Information Technology is Our Latest Official Tooling Partner
• LR29 is the latest Official OpenChain Partner

Outreach

• External Case Study: Implementing the OpenChain Specification
• Shane Coughlan – Ending Keynote at Bitkom Forum Open Source 2023-09-28 – Recording

Webinars

• OpenChain Webinar #56: Generative AI and Your Code

Meetings

Our community held the following meetings:

• OpenChain Monthly Meeting – 2023-09-05
• OpenChain Mini-Summit 2023-09-21

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​ Newsletter – Issue 57 – August 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

In Memory Of Ueda San

• Canopus is the latest organization to adopt the OpenChain Security Assurance Standard
• Revenera Announces ISO/IEC DIS 18974 Adoption
• FinTech Certification In China – National Financial Technology Certification Center Becomes An Official Partner
• OpenTEKr becomes an official partner of the OpenChain Project

Outreach

• OpenChain Taiwan Meetup 2023 @ 2023-08-15 (opening slides)
• OpenChain @ Computer & Recht
• FOSS North 2023 – How The LF Standards For License Compliance And Security Will Fix Your Supply Chain

Webinars

• None this month! Vacation time.

Meetings

Our community held the following meetings:

• OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2023-08-01
• OpenChain Automation Work Group – 2023-08-02
• OpenChain Education Work Group – 2023-08-03
• OpenChain Education Work Group – 2023-08-10
• OpenChain Contribution Specification Kick-Off Call – 2023-08-23
• OpenChain Education Work Group – 2023-08-24
• OpenChain Automotive Work Group – Q3 Meeting – 2023-08-29
• OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2023-08-31

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​ Newsletter – Issue 56 – July 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

Headline News

• LINE Announces An OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Program for Open Source Compliance
• Collabora is the latest organization to announce an OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformant program

Outreach

Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, was the guest presenter on a webinar for InnerSource Commons:

• OpenChain @ InnerSource Commons

Webinars

The OpenChain webinar series continued with presentations about open source in automotive and on InnerSource:

• Webinar: Complexities of Open Source in Automotive
• Webinar: Understanding InnerSource

Meetings

Our multiple work groups had regular meetings:

• OpenChain Monthly Specification Development Calls – July 2023
• OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2023-07-04
• OpenChain Telco Work Group Meeting 2023-07-06
• OpenChain Japan Work Group Meeting #28 – 2023-07-11
• OpenChain Legal Work Group 2023-07-28

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​ Newsletter – Issue 55 – June 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

This edition of the newsletter was created and shared by Qiuyue Qi of OpenSCA, and we provide our thanks for the contribution!

Main News

Deloitte joined the OpenChain Project as an official partner.

• Deloitte is the Latest Official OpenChain Partner

xFusion has announced conformance with ISO/IEC 5230.

• xFusion is the 100th organization to announce an OpenChain Conformant Program through our website

Activities

The OpenChain Project has joined an O-RAN next Generation Research Group meeting:

• OpenChain @ O-RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG) – 2023-06-27

Find the recordings of our mini-summit at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America here:

• OpenChain Mini-Summit @ OSS NA – Recordings

Materials

Check infos about OpenChain Conformance Badge and the new Online Conformance Checklists for All OpenChain Standards.

Webinars

There are three webinars this month: two regular ones talked respectively about trusted network initiative (#52) and OpenSCA (#53), and a special one focused on automotive.

• OpenChain Webinar #52 – Trusted Network Initiative
• OpenChain Webinar #53 – OpenSCA
• Complexities of Managing Open Source in Automotive – OpenChain Automotive Webinar – Slide Deck

Routine

Our multiple work groups had regular meetings:

• OpenChain Export Control Work Group – 2023-06-06 – Recording
• OpenChain Telco Morning and Afternoon Meetings – 2023-06-8
• OpenChain Education Work Group Meeting 2023-06-08 – Recording
• OpenChain Automotive Work Group Meeting – Half Year Assessment – Future Market Strategy – 2023-06-14 – Recording
• OpenChain Korea Work Group Meeting #18 – Outcomes – 2023-06-22
• OpenChain Education Work Group Meeting 2023-06-22 – Recording
• OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2023-06-29 – Overview and Recording

Check our monthly meeting below:

• OpenChain Monthly North America and Europe Call – 2023-06-06 – Recording
• OpenChain Monthly North America / Asia Meeting – 2023-06-20

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​ Newsletter – Issue 54 – May 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

This edition of the newsletter was created and shared by Qiuyue Qi of OpenSCA, and we provide our thanks for the contribution!

Main News

Let’s welcome CARIAD to the board and NORDEMANN as a new partner:

• OpenChain Welcomes CARIAD to the Governing Board
• NORDEMANN is the Latest OpenChain Partner

Activities

The OpenChain Project has joined NLnet Software Supply Chain Webinar Series, and also presented at GOTC and OSCAR in China.

Additionally, we held a mini-summit at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America:

• OpenChain Mini-Summit 2023 @ OSS NA

Case Study

There is a case study for people who are interested in AI topics:

• OpenChain and ChatGPT – New Case Studies

Material

OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 now has Wikipedia page in Spanish:

• OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Wikipedia Page Now In Spanish

A CC0 version of REUSE.software Specification 3.0 is available:

• OpenChain and FSFE bring you REUSE.software Specification 3.0 as CC0

We have updated OpenChain Conformance Badges, and added new mascots to the community.

For June, overview presentations have been released.

• OpenChain Overview Presentations for June

Routine

Education and legal work groups had regular meetings:

• OpenChain Education Work Group 2023-05-11 – Recording
• OpenChain Education Work Group – 2023-05-25 – Recording
• OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2023-05-25 – Overview and Recording

Check our monthly meeting below:

• OpenChain Monthly Meeting 2023-05-02 – Recording
• OpenChain Monthly Meeting for North America and Asia – 2023-05-16 – Recording
• OpenChain Japan Work Group – Meeting 27 – Hybrid 2 – 2023-05-18

Others

The OpenChain Project has been featured at ‘Efficient IP management in a market increasingly using open source’ on IAM.

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​ Newsletter – Issue 53 – April 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. We accept suggestions and ideas. Feel free to mail us at any time.

This edition of the newsletter was created and shared by Qiuyue Qi of OpenSCA, and we provide our thanks for the contribution!

Enlargement

Cloudera, Alibaba Cloud, China Mobile, SAIC Z-ONE and ByteDance have all announced conformance with ISO/IEC 5230.

• Cloudera Announces ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program
• Alibaba Cloud Announces ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program
• China Mobile Announces ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program
• SAIC Z-ONE has adopted the ISO/IEC 5230 standard
• ByteDance Announces OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Conformant Program

LG Electronics also announced conformance with ISO/IEC DIS 18974, the forthcoming ISO standard for open source security assurance.

LG Electronics Announces OpenChain ISO/IEC DIS 18974 Conformant Program

Activities

The OpenChain Project has held the OSCAR Open Source Supply Chain Salon together with CAICT:

• OpenChain @ OSCAR Open Source Supply Chain Salon (OSCAR开源供应链沙龙)

We have also delivered keynotes for Software Alliance Germany and at FOSS North 2023.

Survey

Our industry survey has been online for April.

• OpenChain Industry Survey 2023

Material

We have updated GPLv2 Compliance Flowcharts:

• GPLv2 Compliance Flowcharts Updated

Webinar

We have held a webinar with an update on ClearlyDefined:

• OpenChain Webinar #51 – An Update On ClearlyDefined

Routine Activities

Telco, education and legal work groups had regular meetings.

• Telco Work Group – Morning and Afternoon – 2023-04-06
• OpenChain Education Work Group – 2023-04-13
• OpenChain Legal Work Group – 2023-04-25

Checking our monthly meeting below:

• Monthly Meeting North America and Europe 2023-04-04

Others

The OpenChain Project has been featured at the 2nd China Automotive Cyber Security and Data Security Conference 2023 and the FSFE Legal and Licensing Workshop 2023

Insight on AI Hallucinations Around Open Source Licenses from our partner:

• External: OpenChain Partner Flags Some Interesting AI Hallucinations Around Open Source Licenses

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