OpenChain Monthly Meeting (US / Europe) 2023-01-03 – Recording
Our first monthly meeting of the year contained some great discussion about the spec with oversight by Co-Chair Helio (we worked on issues as usual) and Nathan also set the...
News
Interneuron Announces First OpenChain Security Assurance Specification Conformance
Interneuron, a UK-based service provider to the British National Health Service (NHS), is the first company to formally announce an OpenChain Security Assurance Specification conformant program. This continues their history...
OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 – Global Support
The OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 has been building momentum as a sister specification to ISO/IEC 5230:2020, the International Standard for open source license compliance. With an identical approach to...
External: A New Level of Trust: Corporate-Wide OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 Conformance
If you’re not already aware of it, OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 is the International Standard for open-source license compliance and is designed to build trust in the supply chain. The standard...
OpenChain Export Control Work Group 2022-12-13 – Full Recording
The OpenChain Export Control Work Group held its second meeting in December 2022. This meeting is providing an informal, exploratory platform for discussion around open source, export control, and the...
OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 Now In Simplified Chinese
The OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 is now available in Simplified Chinese. This translation was created by Zhang Jun Xia from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (翻译人：张俊霞，中国信息通信研究院)....
External: Discussing SBOMS – SPDX and CycloneDX (Japanese)
Part 10 (!) of a long-running open source compliance series on the Japanese website @IT covers some of the differences between SPDX and CycloneDX, two SBOM formats with growing mindshare...
Jimmy Ahlberg is the new OpenChain Governing Board Chair
The OpenChain Project has invested resources throughout 2022 towards improving the sustainability and continuity of our project. As part of this, the OpenChain Project Governing Board decided to initiate a...
Security Assurance Specification – German Version and Self-Certification
The OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 is now available in German. Self-certification is also available via checklists and questionnaires. Huge thanks to Katharina and the rest of the the team...
OpenChain Public Policy Work Group 2022-12-12
The first OpenChain Public Policy Work Group meeting was held on 2022-12-12. This meeting was an agenda-setting exercise. The key outcome was to create a spreadsheet and start to collect...
