OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we have received tooling overview slides from Software Compliance Academy in Germany. This contribution provides a high level overview and more specific explanations of how and where tooling can contribute to increased efficiency in open source compliance. The goal is not to provide specific recommendations but rather to frame the discussion to allow organizations to make informed and use-case specific decisions to support their inbound, internal and outbound software management process. As with all reference material provided by the OpenChain Project these slides are licensed under CC-0 (effectively public domain).
The Software Compliance Academy will host a FOSS Compliance Seminar on June 14th to 15th in Berlin. This seminar will feature the OpenChain Specification and reference material, providing a great starting point for organizations in Germany, Switzerland or Austria to begin their engagement with the project. More information is available in German below and on the Software Compliance Academy website.
Die Bedeutung der Open Source-Lizenzen und die Frage der Open Source Compliance hat in den vergangenen Jahren vor allem in der IT-Wirtschaft an Bedeutung gewonnen. Aber auch andere Industriezweige sehen sich zunehmend mit Fragen rund um den Einsatz von Open Source-Software konfrontiert:
- Welche juristischen Vorgaben gilt es beim Einsatz von Open Source-Software im Unternehmen und vor allem in kommerziellen Produkten zu beachten?
- Welche Anforderungen sind an das Lizenzmanagement zu stellen und welchen Beitrag kann ein standardisierter Lizenzmanagement Prozess (OpenChain) leisten?
- Welche Möglichkeiten (und welche Grenzen) bieten technische Ansätze im Bereich Lizenzmanagement?
Sofern diese Fragen auch für Sie oder Ihre Kooperationspartner bzw. Ihr Netzwerk von Interesse sind, möchte ich Sie gerne auf unser kommendes zweitägiges Open Source Compliance Seminar in Berlin am 14. und 15. Juni 2018 hinweisen. Neben den Referenten der Software Compliance Academy wird auch Shane Coughlan, Leiter des OpenChain Projektes bei der Linux Foundation, einen Teil des Seminars übernehmen und die aktuellen Entwicklungen des OpenChain Projektes vorstellen.
Learn More:
- Das detaillierte Programm finden Sie unter http://www.scompliance.com/files/uploads/seminare/FOSSCompliance14.u.15.06.2018.pdf
- Die Online-Anmeldung finden Sie unter http://www.scompliance.com/seminar.html
The OpenChain Project has received a contribution of localized onboarding slides from Bird & Bird in Germany. This short deck is designed to help organizations without prior knowledge of OpenChain understand the reasoning and key benefits behind the project. This marks another milestone in the on-going internationalization of OpenChain-related material to support both OpenChain Conformance and broader open source compliance activities in organizations of all sizes. As with all OpenChain contributions, these slides are licensed under CC-0.
“Germany sees increasing interest in building trust that supplied software conforms to applicable open source licenses” says Dr. Miriam Ballhausen, Senior Associate at Bird & Bird. “OpenChain can already serve to demonstrate that such trust is justified. On many occasions, though, organizations in Germany have tackled building trust in their supply chains on their own accord. They have regularly defined requirements for quality compliance programs that considerably overlap with the OpenChain specification. But it still shows that OpenChain has not been sufficiently furthered with English language onboarding material. The German translation aims to fill this gap and support outreach in German speaking countries.”
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Today features the second OpenChain Workshop in Taipei. This event builds on a compliance workshop held during April and marks another step towards the Legal Track that OpenChain will help organize at the COSCUP conference on August 11th and 12th.
From the organizer’s website:
“延續上次對OpenChain規範書及依該規範書產出的「自由開源軟體授權管理訓練課程」，最多參與者的反饋，是如何在正確運用這些知識的前提下，簡要並正確的利用相關工具，實作開源授權管理分析與基礎紀錄。此次，我們將在這樣的反饋下，說明 SPDX 開源套件授權資訊紀錄格式，並配合 FOSSology 這套本身即為開源專案的自由開源授權分析工具，選擇 5 – 10 個講者過往協助過的分析案例，在實作說明下，引導參與者善用這些工具，來了解實際開源合規（法遵）的解析程序為何。
Lucien CH Lin, who has a knowledge background in science and technology law, worked at Academia Sinica in public research in 2005-16. The research results in recent years include: Author of the Taiwan Special Chapter of the Free and Open Source Software Legal Reference Book. , and assist participants from all walks of life to clarify issues such as Open Source, Open Data, CC Licensing, and intellectual property rights and public licensing applications. At present, he has been transferred to a non-governmental firm, and he has served as an advisor to the Open Culture Foundation as a legal advisor. He has allocated time and energy to build an open source legal network (Open Source Legal Network, Taiwan).”
Learn More:
- View the event details here: https://dmfli.kktix.cc/events/openchain2
- Check out the slides here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nfqo28re8z0bag9/20180514-OpenChain%E9%96%8B%E6%BA%90%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86-2-SPDX%E8%88%87FOSSology%E5%AF%A6%E9%9A%9B%E6%87%89%E7%94%A8.pdf?dl=0
Toyota has built strong ties into the global open source development community and into areas related to open source patent non-aggression and copyright compliance. During the Legal & Licensing Workshop in Barcelona during April 2018 Endo San from the Toyota legal team explained their approach and the benefits it brings.
View the presentation here:
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of a Conformance and Compliance Checklist to assist with quick, easy and effective adoption of key requirements for quality open source compliance programs.
This document is targeted to support direct conformance activities. It frames the key requirements for conformance in a simple yes/no format that can rapidly contextualize progress in an organization.
This material was kindly contributed by id Law Partners in Spain and – as with all reference material provided by the OpenChain Project – is available under a Creative Commons 0 license (effectively public domain). You can use, study, share and improve it without restriction.
Get the Checklist
- Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material
The OpenChain Specification Version 1.2 is now available in Japanese. You can get it here in PDF format.
Version 1.2 is the result of the contributions of more than 150 people over the past three years. Congratulations and a big thanks to all those who contributed! Each and every contribution, whether or not it resulted in an addition, modification or debate, led to a better specification.
Huge thanks are due to the Linux Foundation Japan volunteer translation team for localizing our newest release so quickly. Special thanks is due to Taniguchi San for driving this process.
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The OpenChain Japan Work Group will hold its fourth meeting at Toyota’s Midland Square offices on the 13th of June. This event builds on the recent meeting held at Panasonic’s facilities in Osaka with representatives from 15 companies in attendance, and will be a great chance to obtain practical case studies, reference material and to network.
The meeting will be held in Japanese. If you want to attend please reach out to <hiroki_takemi@mail.toyota.co.jp>.
Details in Japanese
OpenChain_Japan_WG関係者の皆様
いつもお世話になっております。
トヨタ自動車株式会社
知的財産部 コーポレート知財室
竹見 宏樹です。
6月開催予定のJapan_WG（弊社ホスト）を下記の通りご案内させて頂きます。
つきましては、参加希望の方は「会社名」、「氏名」、「懇親会参加可否」の3点を、
竹見<hiroki_takemi@mail.toyota.co.jp>までご連絡いただきますようお願いします（5/28（月）〆）。
※弊社側の入館手続きに上記情報が必要となります。
【日時】6/13（水）13:30-16:30
【場所】トヨタ自動車名古屋オフィス（ミッドランドスクエア）
<http://www.toyota.co.jp/jpn/company/about_toyota/outline/nagoya_office.html>
【備考】
① 当日、私から入館カードをお配りしますので13：30に弊社名古屋オフィス総合受付（ミッドランドスクエア24F）に集合ください。
※ミッドランドスクエア1Fから24Fまでシャトルエレベータがございます。ご利用ください。
② Japan_WG終了後に懇親会を予定しております（会費4～5000円程度を予定）。
③ 同建物内にて弊社ショールームがございますのでご都合よろしければ是非ご観覧頂ければと存じます。
<http://www.toyota.co.jp/showroom_midlandsquare/>
当日アジェンダを募集しておりますので、Japan_WGメーリングリスト若しくは竹見に直接ご連絡ください。
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The third meeting of the OpenChain Japan Work Group took place at the Panasonic headquarters in Osaka. This event was attended by around 30 people representing 15 organizations. Topics on the agenda included real world application of the specification to solve supply chain challenges and the collection of case studies from a diverse range of Japanese stakeholders.
The outcomes of the event will be shared in more detail in the coming weeks. As with all Japan Work Group meetings, this event was held in Japanese, and kindly self-organized by our excellent local community.
The OpenChain Project is excited to announce the availability of the OpenChain Specification version 1.2. This document presents a refined, easier to understand and easier to translate format. Our goal is to open our community to wider participation and adoption.
The following African proverb captures the essence of the OpenChain community effort:
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Version 1.2 is the result of the contributions of more than 150 people over the past three years. Congratulations and a big thanks to all those who contributed! Each and every contribution, whether or not it resulted in an addition, modification or debate, led to a better specification.
Learn More:
- Download a copy of the specification here: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchainspec-1.2.pdf
- Learn more about it here: https://www.openchainproject.org/spec
- Self-certify here: https://www.openchainproject.org/conformance
