Our export control work group continues to explore pre-existing material and how it can be made easier to find, navigate and repurpose. The focus is on reviewing the new volunteer project being set up at https://github.com/crypto-law-survey to explore the continuation of Bert’s http://www.cryptolaw.org/ as a general community resource. Check out the recording to learn more.
A key outcome of this meeting was to open a series of issues for the work group members to review:
LINE Corporation is pleased to announce that it has achieved OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 self-certification, the international standard for open source license compliance. The OpenChain Project is one of the initiatives led by Linux Foundation, a leading non-profit organization focused on fostering innovation through open source and developing best practices and standards for open source software, hardware, standards, and data.
By attaining ISO/IEC 5230 self-certification, LINE has been globally recognized as having a highly trustworthy and systematic management system for utilizing open source. Thousands of LINE developers around the world, including in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, utilize and develop open source systems based on international standards, and LINE’s open source team strictly complies with those core obligations in open source management.
LINE also has a history of releasing its internal technologies as open source software, including Armeria, the asynchronous framework that is a core technology of the LINE messenger. In addition, LINE has been a Silver Sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that supports open source, since 2022, and since 2021, LINE has hosted the LINE Open Source Sprint, an internal event where LINE developers can participate in open source projects over the course of a month. By doing activities like these, LINE not only supports the growth of individual developers, but also strives to create an open source culture that embraces collaboration with the global open source ecosystem.
“LINE has a long history of success pioneering cutting-edge technological trends in all sorts of fields, including messengers, AI, blockchain, and fintech,” said Snow Kwon, CTO of LINE Plus. “As part of this process, we strictly maintain the highest standards of open source compliance. This OpenChain certification is recognition of our longstanding capacity in this area, and a sign of our commitment to open source moving forward.”
Based in Japan, LINE is dedicated to the mission of “Closing the Distance,” bringing together information, services and people. The LINE messaging app launched in June 2011 and since then has grown into a diverse, global ecosystem that includes AI technology, fintech and more. LINE joined the Z Holdings Group, one of the largest internet service groups in Japan, following the completion of a business integration in March 2021.
During our recent OpenChain Automotive Event we had some excellent talks. One that we decided to pull out of the main recording and release solo is ‘Complexities of Open Source in Automotive’ by Russ Eling. This type of high level overview is an excellent starting point for people in complex manufacturing industries that want to use our open source standards for licensing and security.
OSS Consultants is an official OpenChain Partner with decades of experience. Russ at OSS Consultants has offered his time to speak with anyone that has questions about managing use of open source – even if it is as simple as how to get started on your open source journey. Simply send an email to info@ossconsultants.com to schedule a time.
This is OpenChain Webinar #54, released on 2023-07-04.
The OpenChain Legal Work Group is exploring model provisions for OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 or ISO/IEC DIS 18974 in procurement contracts and similar material. We decided to proceed via mirroring the format of the pre-existing public domain Risk Grid:
https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material/tree/master/General-Compliance-Support-Material/Risk-Grid
Currently scheduled for July 27th at 09:00 PDT / 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST / 00:00 CST / 01:00 KST + JST
Join our mailing list to track our work and contribute to the development of the model provisions:
https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/legal-wg
The goal is to ensure people can understand options. We will not be prescriptive and these model provisions will remain part of the OpenChain reference material. They will not be included in the standards themselves.
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!
Deloitte joined the OpenChain Project as an official partner.
xFusion has announced conformance with ISO/IEC 5230.
The OpenChain Project has joined an O-RAN next Generation Research Group meeting:
Find the recordings of our mini-summit at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America here:
Check infos about OpenChain Conformance Badge and the new Online Conformance Checklists for All OpenChain Standards.
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.
Our multiple work groups had regular meetings:
Check our monthly meeting below:
The OpenChain Automotive Work Group held its half-year assessment meeting to discuss future market strategy on the 14th of June 2023. We had excellent presentations from OSS Consultants, Volvo Cars and Hyundai Motor Corporation. A big thank you Endo San from Toyota, our chair, for organizing this event.
Check out the recording of our latest monthly meeting for North America / Asia. As always, we are working on the next generation of the license compliance and security assurance standards.
We focused on the Security Specification:
Our outcome was (a) alignment with Licensing Spec 3.0 but (b) several suggestions for improvement.
This webinar highlights a new open source tool for open source compliance and security that originates in China. This tool was created by a company called XMIRROR. The open source CLI offers SPDX support, so is immediate interest to tooling communities around the world, particularly from the perspective of integration with open source tooling frontend solutions.
This is OpenChain Webinar #53, released on 2023-06-29.
OpenChain was invited to talk about our process management standards and relevance to SBOM at an O-RAN next Generation Research Group (nGRG) meeting. Check out our speech below by Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager.
O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions with the mission to re-shape Radio Access Networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable.
The next Generation Research Group (nGRG) is a research task force founded by the O-RAN ALLIANCE in June 2022.
Formed by members from major mobile operators, vendors from telecom, IT and DT industries, and well-known research institutes and universities around the world, nGRG takes the mission to leverage industry and academic 6G research efforts and determine how O-RAN will evolve to support 6G and beyond, considering regional research efforts, ITU-R, and 3GPP development.
nGRG defines O-RAN ALLIANCE’s 6G research agenda and key priorities, with the focuses to achieve O-RAN sustainability from 4G/5G to 6G and beyond and unify the 6G technology path to avoid incompatibility with other SDOs.
Through nGRG’s white papers, it will recommend appropriate actions to the development of next generation O-RAN.
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