We Are Supported By Our Platinum Members:
The Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project have seats on our Governing Board. They provide strategic guidance and financial support for the project, and they make the final vote on proposed changes to the standards that we create.
We Foster A Broad Community:
The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient.
We Maintain Standards:
- OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230
The international standard for open source license compliance programs - OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974
The industry standard for open source security assurance programs
We Develop Best Practices:
Our community develops best practices to reduce friction and increase efficiency across all aspects of open source process management. Everyone is invited to be part of what we do. There are no restrictions to join our mailing lists, our calls and most of our events.
We Are Carefully Focused:
The OpenChain Project is focused on commercial and non-commercial open source process management in the supply chain. It is not involved in other aspects of government policy or political issues. Similarly, we do not develop software or work on different topics around open source.
Learn About Our Project Structure:
To help orientate you in our community let’s talk about the structure. The OpenChain Project is fiscally supported by its platinum members but it is a large global community interacting and sharing. Our community comes up with ideas, creates solutions and prepares everything to help improve the supply chain. We do have some formal structures (board votes, steering committee votes), but the vast majority of our work is organic and based on stakeholders in the supply chain working together to address challenges.
To be part of our community is simple. Join our mailing lists, turn up on our calls, and share your views. The majority of our community (and all our board members) are user companies of open source, but we have an extensive vendor partner program that can provide commercial support in our domain. In this way, we balance solutions for challenges based on what is best for companies using open source, but we do not neglect to ensure that you can get legal, consultancy, automation and certification support if you need it. Learn more about each group of project stakeholders below.
Our Community of Conformance:
Our Official Partners:
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Timeline
- October 2015: The Linux Foundation announced an OpenChain Workgroup and a public wiki was launched.
- October 2016: The OpenChain Project was formally launched at Open Source Summit Europe. The founding Platinum Members were Adobe, ARM, Cisco, Harman, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Qualcomm, Siemens and Wind River.
- October 2016: OpenChain Specification 1.0 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 5230:2020).
- April 2017: OpenChain Specification 1.1 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 5230:2020).
- April 2018: OpenChain Specification 1.2 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 5230:2020).
- March 2019: OpenChain Specification 2.0 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 5230:2020).
- March 2020: OpenChain Specification 2.1 (draft) was released (this was an editorial change to OpenChain Specification 2.0 to align with ISO formatting). It entered the JTC-1 PAS Transposition Process via the Joint Development Foundation to become an ISO/IEC standard.
- December 2020: OpenChain Specification 2.1 was released (functionally identical to OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020).
- December 2020: OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230:2020 was released.
- August 2021: OpenChain Security Assurance Reference Guide 1.0 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 18974:2023).
- March 2022: OpenChain Security Assurance Reference Guide 2.0 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 18974:2023).
- September 2022: OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.0 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 18974:2023).
- October 2022: OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1 was released (this evolved into ISO/IEC 18974:2023).
- March 2023: ISO/IEC DIS 18974 was released, the ISO/IEC submission draft of OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 1.1.
- December 2023: OpenChain Security Assurance Specification 2.0 was released (functionally identical to OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974:2023).
- December 2023: OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974:2023 was released.
