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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a legal track at the upcoming COSCUP event in Taipei, Taiwan. This event will start at 9:30 in the COSCUP Conference Room IB503 on the 12th August. As always our goal is to build bridges, share knowledge, and lay the foundation for increased trust in software supply chains.

Schedule

An introduction from our hosts

Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏, Shane Coughlan)

Open Source Licensing makes a Difference / 開源授權就是不一樣

Florence T.M. Ko 葛冬梅

Software Supply Chain and OSS

Satoru Ueda

Understand and perform the FOSS compliance in a community-driven way / 採社群思維模式做好開源合規

Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏

From OpenChain to FOSSology – Compliance in 2018

Shane Coughlan

Break

Introduction of OpenChain Japan WG

Hiroyuki Fukuchi, Shinsuke Kato

OIN Linux系統專利合作計畫

Kevin Huang 黃鴻文

Break

Panel: Different perspectives around compliance

Hosted by Shane Coughlan
Featuring:

• Hiroyuki Fukuchi
• Shinsuke Kato
• Florence T.M. Ko 葛冬梅
• Lucien C.H. Lin 林誠夏
• Satoru Ueda
• Kevin Huang 黃鴻文

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The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of four anonymous open source compliance case studies from Japan. These case studies mark the conclusion of our sequence of releases that saw information shared by Toyota, Hitachi, Sony and many more.

“The OpenChain Japan Work Group has provided strong leadership in developing and releasing knowledge around open source compliance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “A great deal of this knowledge, available in both English and Japanese, is directly useful to companies considering the OpenChain standard, building open source program offices and simply working to get compliance right. After this fantastic run of case studies we look forward to next steps. Watch this space for more reference material, reports and contributions.”

Get The Case Studies Here

• Download in PDF format
• Download in PPTX format

The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce the release of a second set of tooling slides. These slides were contributed by Software Compliance Academy, one of our strategic partners in Germany, and build on our first release in May. As with all contributions to the OpenChain learning materials (curriculum and onboarding), these slides are published under the CC-0 license, effectively public domain.

“Reference material covering the real-world use of compliance tooling is a common request for companies all over the globe,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Thanks to our partners in Germany we have been able to directly address this area. We look forward to seeing how people adopt these slides and to their feedback regarding future improvements. As always, everyone is welcome to use our materials, and everyone is welcome to be part of making them better.”

Get The Slides Here:

• Download in PDF format
• Download in PPTX format
• Download in ODP 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 three consumer device company case studies. These encompass company approaches, priorities and engagement with OpenChain. They are provided in anonymous format from major international stakeholders in both OpenChain and open source more generally.

“The OpenChain Project is first and foremost a way to build trust between companies,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “One of our most frequently requested items to support this process are case studies. Building on our prior releases of automotive case studies along with a raft of releases from Hitachi, Sony, Toyota, Fujitsu and Hitachi Solutions, these case studies offer direct insight into real-world open source compliance programs.”

These anonymous case studies are provided under CC-0 licensing, effectively public domain.

Get The Case Studies

• Download in PDF format
• Download in PPTX format
• Download in ODP format

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.

Learn More:

• Get the Case Study in English and Japanese