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The OpenChain Project is delighted to make our slides from Open Source Summit Japan 2018 available to all parties. These slides are licensed under the CC-0 (effectively public domain) license. They contain a series of announcements related to material in Japanese and events in Asia.

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• OpenChain – Complex Made Simple – Version 2 – Japanese

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that our Japanese website will launch in July. This website and accompanying free, online conformance questionnaire, will allow Japanese companies of all sizes to quickly get compliance reference material, confirm the status of their internal programs, and encourage their suppliers to follow the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program.

The OpenChain Project is proud to announce the release of an open source compliance case study from Hitachi. This case study joins our growing body of examples and knowledge-sharing from companies around the world.

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

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• Get the Case Study in English and Japanese

The OpenChain Project is proud to announce the release of an open source compliance case study from Fujitsu. This case study joins our growing body of examples and knowledge-sharing from companies around the world.

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

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• Get the Case Study in English and Japanese

The OpenChain Project is proud to announce the release of an open source compliance case study from Toyota. This case study joins our growing body of examples and knowledge-sharing from companies around the world.

This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Normally contributions are released under CC-0 around the OpenChain Project. However, given that case studies are reports rather than contributions of processes, policies or reference material, and given requests from companies to ensure their stance is reflected accurately, we have decided to license the reports in a no derivative format.

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• Get the Case Study in English and Japanese

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of Japanese checklists to assist with open source compliance and OpenChain conformance. These checklists are part of the project’s curriculum material and provide a great starting point for addressing key requirements of quality open source compliance programs. As with all reference material produced by the OpenChain Project these checklists are available under CC-0 (effectively public domain) licensing terms.

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• Get the basic compliance checklists in PDF format
• Get the OpenChain conformance checklist in PDF format

Get this guide and many more documents in the OpenChain Reference Library: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the immediate availability of onboarding material in Japanese. These documents are intended to help companies quickly understand the purpose and value of OpenChain, and to provide a clear way to participate through our extremely active Japan Work Group. The Work Group, formed last December, holds meetings bi-monthly. The last meeting had over 40 representatives from 26 companies gathering to share information about their experiences and best practices.

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