The OpenChain Project was featured in two talks at the Korean Copyright Conference on the 27th of June. This event, hosted by the Korean Copyright Commission, ran adjacent to a Public Domain event, and in combination the local audience was provided with broad context regarding open approaches to sharing intellectual capital.
Masato Endo from Toyota and Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, discussed a series of topics ranging from Open Source Software Supply Chain Management through to the growing corpus of reference material available for companies and their suppliers to get context for effective license management.
This event comes hot on the heels of our second OpenChain Korean Work Group meeting and solidifies our growing exposure to this dynamic, fast growing technology market. The third OpenChain Korea Work Group meeting is scheduled to be hosted by SK Telecom in September and will continue our advocacy and preparation work in advance of graduating from a de facto industry standard to a formal ISO standard in 1H 2020.
The OpenChain Project has released the first version of our regional overview slides for Japan. The downloadable version of these slides contain speaker notes. These are intended to help contextualize and explain our local activities.
The OpenChain Project maintains a set of slides with speaker notes to help contextualize the project for readers and audiences globally. The latest version of this slide deck includes information about recently conformant entities, new partners and our activities towards becoming an ISO standard.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announce that Infosys is the latest company to adopt our industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain. Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. They enable clients in 45 countries to navigate their digital transformation leveraging over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises
“Infosys have always approached Open Source Software usage and compliance in a manner that takes the course of careful due diligence, and benchmarking our processes & procedures with globally acceptable industry standards,” says Shuvajit Mitra, Legal Affairs Counsel, Infosys. “To do this, we engaged with the Open Chain Project to assess our compliance practices in consonance with Open Chain Specification 2.0. To be in conformance with Open Chain Project, Infosys has implemented processes, practices and awareness to meet all requirements on OSS licensing and its implications while using and distributing OSS components bundled with Infosys software products, platforms and solutions which are the best in breed and which can be transparently demonstrated. Infosys thanks the Open Chain leadership in guiding Infosys through this process of assessment and authentication to achieve good governance as a best practice of software development.”
“Infosys is a company that we are exceptionally proud to work with and to welcome into the OpenChain Community of Conformance,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Their position as an Indian company with tremendous global reach illustrates the broad applicability and value of the OpenChain standard for open source compliance. They are also a trail-blazer in innovation around process improvement, something underlined by their choice to become the first company to enter the OpenChain eco-system by direct adoption of our second generation industry standard. We are looking forward to collaborating in India and beyond in the coming months and years.”
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Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 45 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
The OpenChain Project is delighted to announced the immediate availability of a case study with Toyota explaining how Kaizen and Open Source spur innovation across the global supply chain. This case study is an exceptionally important milestone for our project, marking the beginning of a series of case studies explaining the “path to conformance” in OpenChain, and providing real-world snapshots of the journeys being undertaken by market leaders. We have worked together with Endo San from the Toyota IP team in crafting this case study and are indebted to his team for clear, concise insights into the decision-making process of one of the world’s largest car companies as it relates to open source technology.
The OpenChain Project counts Toyota among its board members and we have initiated a long-term collaboration focused on ensuring Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers become aware of and are supported in adopting the OpenChain industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain.
The OpenChain Project and our standard for open source compliance in the supply chain will be featured at the next Software Compliance Academy (SCA) event in Munich, Germany. SCA is an OpenChain Partner and the founders have been involved with our project since inception. One highlight of the event will be the talk by Dr. Michael C. Jaeger on open source tooling for open source compliance.
“Free and Open Source Software im Unternehmen und vor allem in kommerziellen Produkten einsetzen – was gilt es dabei zu beachten? Welche rechtlichen Fragestellungen wirft das Open Source Lizenzmodell auf? Welche Anforderungen sind an das Lizenzmanagement sowie an interne Prozessabläufe zu stellen? Und welchen Mehrwert kann der Einsatz sogenannter Software Scanning Tools oder Software Lizenzmanagement Tools bringen? Einen Überblick über die rechtlichen Grundlagen und die Möglichkeiten des Software Scanning und Lizenzmanagements sowie den ersten Industriestandard OpenChain gibt das FOSS Compliance Seminar mit dem Schwerpunkt “Legal and Tools” in München am 28. Juni 2019.”
The OpenChain Project will have a significant presence at the NDS Embedded Linux Cross Forum on July 5th in Japan. Shane Coughlan and the Japan Work Group will be delivering the opening keynote and three major case studies to further our educational mission. This is a great opportunity for companies in West Japan to engage with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain.
We are delighted to announce that Wind River, the first company to become OpenChain Conformant, is now OpenChain 2.0 Conformant. This expansion of Wind River’s OpenChain Conformance illustrates a strong commitment to being a leader in both supporting and deploying the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain.
“We have been fortunate to work closely with Wind River from the genesis of this project through to our current status as a growing industry standard,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “Mark, our primary contact, has been a highly effective chair of our specification work team and our wider relationship with Wind River has seen a keen focus on ensuring a real world solution for real world challenges. Welcoming Wind River as the first OpenChain 2.0 Conformant organization is a natural and exciting expansion of our collaboration.”
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the OpenChain Korea Work Group 2nd meeting on the 12th of June. Special thanks to Samsung Electronics for providing the venue and informative session presentation.
4. The 3rd meeting will take place at the SKT with our kind host being Woody Park.
If you have a topic that you would like to discuss at the third meeting, please feel free to comment.
We are currently considering the first week of September but the formal announcement will come later.
5. The OpenChain Korea Work Group is using an an open source approach to collaborate and share ways for everyone to effectively achieve Open Source Compliance. If you are in charge of Open Source Compliance in a Korean company you can participate. If you have anyone around you who wants to participate in this meeting, please let them know how to join the Mailing List via this wiki: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/openchain-korean-working-group
The License Information Sub-Group of the OpenChain Japan Work Group will host a meeting on the 25th of June. Our coordinator is Ito San from Renasas and the event will be hosted at the Fujitsu Solution Square in Tokyo. The meeting will be held in Japanese but all parties are welcome. Minutes will be shared after the meeting.
