The International Standard for open source license compliance took center stage at the LINE Developer Day 2020 conference. Check out the recordings of our talk in English and Japanese below.
Watch the Recording in English
Watch the Recording in Japanese
On this webinar Tim Bird of Sony spoke on ‘Issues with Open Source License Compliance in Consumer Electronics’, a variant of a speech recently delivered at Open Source Summit Europe, and made available here for our global audience along with a great Q&A.
This is OpenChain Webinar #14, released on 2020-11-20.
We had a great discussion on the most recent fourth Monday Specification meeting. Key topics were around timescales for releases (we plan to have long periods between releases) and expanding this call to cover our other global work teams as well (which we decided was a good idea).
Check it out below and look forward to an expanded format in November.
On October 14th the MIT Enterprise Forum held a webinar entitled “Once Upon a Time in …Medical Device and Open Source Land.” In this webinar Alexander Adam, medical device expert and Principal at my Firm, medical device innovator, Navin Dewagan, and open source software expert, Matt Jacobs from Synopsys, Inc. discussed some of the effective and practical strategies to reap the benefits of open source software for medical devices, how to maximize the value of your patents and software innovations using open source licensing, and how patents are used in innovative ways to complement open source software.
Our OpenChain India Work Group has its next meeting on October 30th at 5pm India Time. Join us to learn more about local open source compliance activity, how your peers approach process management, and what is coming next in our field.
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Newsletter – Issue 42 – October 2020
Our newsletter contains some of the highlights from the last month of activity in the project. Plenty more happened. Check out the full stream here:
https://www.openchainproject.org/news
OpenChain @ Sales and Procurement
We launched a leaflet to help Sales and Procurement Departments understand and include the OpenChain standard for open source compliance in their workflow.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/11/openchain-sales-and-procurement-leaflet-now-available
OpenChain @ Partners
Synopsys has joined the OpenChain Partner program.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/03/wipro-limited-is-the-latest-openchain-partner-2
OpenChain @ Conformance
InterneuronCIC announced OpenChain 2.0 conformance
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/09/10/interneuroncic-announces-openchain-2-0-conformance
OpenChain @ Webinars #11 & 12:
This webinar welcomed Carsten Emde and Caren Kresse from OSADL to talk about building your own Open Source policy with the OSADL template.
This is OpenChain Webinar #13, released on 2020-10-21.
In October 2020 the OpenChain Japan Work Group reached 200 contributors from 80 entities across 7 work groups. It has been an exceptional two year journey in building out the community.
Everyone is welcome to participate on the mailing lists and meetings. You can get started by visiting the dedicated wiki page listed below.
Learn More About the Japan Work Group
Join The Mailing List
Version 11 of SW360 has been released on GitHub. This version supports the Japanese language thanks to the contributions of Hama-san, Dote-san, Koizumi-san and Ninjoji-san from the OpenChain Japan Work Group.
Check Out The New Release
Check Out The Updated Installation Guide
On October 7th at 15:30 CEST OpenChains General Manager Shane Coughlan joined a panel entitled “Disentangle the Open Source License Jungle” at the Open Source Business Forum. He and the other panelists Hendrik Schoettle, Sasha Vidiborskiy, Dominik Tobschall and Heather Meeker discussed ways for start-ups to navigate the process of choosing an open source license.
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