This advent calendar has been created by our Japanese Work Group as part of their community outreach. We hope you enjoy their recap of compliance topics to end the year.
In this Advent Calender, we will use 7 of 25 articles to introduce the OpenChain Spec v2.1 draft rc3, which is equivalent to ISO/IEC PRF 5280, an international standard being developed. This is just an introduction to give you an idea of what OpenChain is all about, so if you want to know more about it, please read the actual standard. If you want to know more about it, please read the actual standard.
1.1 Policy
Chapter 1.1 is about OSS policies. It does not specify what should be included in the OSS policy, which will be covered in the next chapter.
1.2 Competence
Chapter 1.2 is a section on defining roles within the organization. The organization needs to define the roles and responsibilities and suitability of the personnel who will deliver OSS compliance and keep the results of their suitability assessment.
1.3 Awareness.
Chapter 1.3 is the chapter on education. Organizations need to educate staff involved in OSS compliance operations about OSS policies, the purpose and contribution of OSS utilization, and the consequences of non-compliance, and keep evidence of the education results.
Tomorrow, as a topic related to chapter 1.3, Mr. Iwata from Education SG will introduce the activity to share the materials which can be used for internal training among companies.
OpenChain Japan Advent Calendar 2020、本日の記事執筆を担当する山田です。IPTech特許業務法人というIT領域に特化した特許事務所で勤務しています。あと、副業として、テック系のライターもしています
IT領域で仕事をする上でOSSの知識が不可欠だなと思うようになり、2019年夏ころからOpenChainの活動に参加し始めました。現在は、主にPromotion SWG(Sub Working Group)で活動しており、OpenChainやOSSコンプライアンスに関する情報発信や昨日遠藤さんから紹介があったOSSコンプライアンスについての研究活動等の取り組みをしています。
This advent calendar has been created by our Japanese Work Group as part of their community outreach. We hope you enjoy their recap of compliance topics to end the year.
1. Introduction
Hello. I’m Masato ENDO.
At first, I’d like to introduce myself again, I’m OpenChain Project Automotive Chair and Japan Work Group Promotion Sub Group Leader. Recently, I became group manager of business planning and system development in my company. Now, I’m studying agile development agile development
My hobbies are traveling, watching sports (especially soccer), and gadgets. I planned to get a PS5 and a Galaxy Note20 Ultra this winter. However, I could not get them. After all, I bought the iPhone12 pro max because I was attracted to Pacific Blue and camera performance. Recently, I’m wondering if I should buy ASTRO CITY mini. If the software for the ST-V board and MODEL2 board was included, I bought it without hesitation.
Today, I would like to share the progress of OSS compliance governance construction of each company. Last week we gave you an overview of the OpenChain standard. I think everyone is most concerned about “How far are other companies actually doing?” Japan WG conducted a survey to answer such questions. So, I will share the survey outline.
2. Summary of the Survey
As introduced last year at OpenChain Japan WG Promotion SG, we have been raising awareness of the importance of OSS compliance with various partners such as the companies, government, media, and community. Meanwhile, in 2020, we launched a research team on OSS compliance in collaboration with the academic community. First of all, since it is important to grasp the situation, we conducted a questionnaire for domestic and foreign companies. We received responses from 59 companies. The attributes of the respondents are as follows. In order to clarify the progress of each company, we have summarized the items related to each item of OpenChain Spec 2.0, which is almost the same as the ISO standard. The report can be downloaded from GitHub, so this time I will introduce the essence.
3. Summary of the result
First, let’s take a look at the items that are relatively being developed by each company among the items of OpenChain Spec 2.0.
Sec1.1 requires that documented OSS policies be disseminated internally. We found that 83% of the surveyed subjects had some form of OSS policy.
Next, let’s look at the items that each company is struggling with.
The graph above is for budget items, and the same tendency can be seen for securing personnel. Analyzing these, we can see that although the importance of OSS compliance has begun to be recognized and rules such as policies are being created, resources are not yet fully allocated.
Finally, let’s take a look at the whole summary slide.
Looking at the whole thing, we can see that in addition to resources, there are also issues related to contributions. We plan to introduce contributions in detail later this month. In any case, all items must be satisfied in order to obtain ISO standard certification. OpenChain will continue to provide information that will support the acquisition of certification by each company.
4.Tomorrow’s theme is …
From tomorrow, we will finally start introducing the contents of the ISO standard. At first, Mr. Yamada will introduce chapters 1.1 to 1.3. Looking forward to!
1. はじめに
こんにちは。 一昨日に続いての登場の遠藤です。
改めて自己紹介させて頂きますが、 OpenChainでは、本Advent Calendarを企画しているJapan WG Promotion SGのリーダーや グローバルではAutomotive Chairを務めさせて頂いています。 本業ではデータビジネス関係の企画・開発を行うチームのマネージャーに最近なりました。 アジャイル開発を勉強して、スクラムマスターの資格(LSM)をとったところです。
趣味は旅行、ガジェット、スポーツ観戦(主にサッカー)です。 今冬は、PS5とGalaxy Note20 Ultraをゲット予定でしたが、 前者は購入できず、後者は楽天からSIMフリーバージョンがなかなか発表されなかっため、 結局パシフィックブルーとカメラ性能に惹かれてiPhone12 Pro Maxを買っちゃいました。 最近はアストロシティミニを購入すべきか悩み中です。 世代的にST-V基板やMODEL2基板のソフトが入っていれば即買いだったんですが。
さて、本日は各企業のOSSコンプラ体制構築進捗状況について共有させて頂きます。 先週一週間でOpenChain標準の概要を説明させていただいたのですが、 皆さん一番気になるのが「他社は実際どこまでやってるの?」ということかなと思います。 Japan WGでは今年そのような疑問に答える調査を行いましたので、調査概要をシェアさせて頂きます。
2. 調査概要
OpenChain Japan WG Promotion SGでは昨年も紹介したように コミュニティ、企業、政府、メディアなど様々なパートナーとOSSコンプラの重要性の啓発を行ってきました。 そんな中、2020年は学術界と連携し、OSSコンプライアンスについての研究チームを立ち上げました。 まずは、状況把握が重要ということで、国内外企業向けのアンケートを実施し、 59社から回答を得ました。回答者の属性は以下のようになります。 その中で、各社の進捗状況を明らかにするためにアンケート結果の中から ISO標準とほぼ同じものであるOpenChain Spec2.0の各項目に関連する項目をまとめました。 レポートはGitHubからDLできますので、今回はエッセンスをご紹介いたします。
This advent calendar has been created by our Japanese Work Group as part of their community outreach. We hope you enjoy their recap of compliance topics to end the year.
It’s a little off the topic of ISOization of OpenChain, but this week we had a big event such as Open Compliance Summit on 12/1 and Open Source Summit Japan on 12/2-4. So I will report them here.
What is the Open Compliance Summit?
The Open Compliance Summit is an annual event held in Japan at this time of year. As the name implies, it is a place to discuss OSS compliance. To join this event, you must be a member of the Linux Foundation or invited. Chatham House rules apply, so you can expect a deeper discucssion. This year, due to COVID-19, it was held online.
Content this year
Of course, the biggest event in 2020 related to compliance is ISOization of OpenChain 2.1. It was also introduced that SPDX is also working toward ISOization. For 2021, it is said that “visualization has became possible, so optimization will be in turn” due to ISOization. Based on that trend, I have the impression that there were many announcements about compliance tools. The biggest thing for me is that I learned that the famous copyright troll was involved in PostgreSQL last year. So he is mentioned in Acknowledgments for Release 12. Oh, that means my name is written alongside his name…
What is Open Source Summit Japan?
Open Source Summit Japan is an event held in Japan from the end of spring to the beginning of summer every year. This is a place to discuss OSS widely, not limited to compliance. This year was scheduled for a different time than usual because it overlaps with the Olympics, but due to COVID-19, it was held online at this time.
Content this year
1st day
In the keynote speech it was said that OSS was well going in 2020, despite the pandemic and trade conflicts. On the contrary, OSS is also used to combat pandemic. (This is also true of Tokyo’s stopcovid19 site, isn’t it?) Next, Automotive Grade Linux UCB version 10.0 was introduced. I’m not very familiar with cars, so I can’t write any more, but the next version is nicknamed Kooky Koi. I don’t know what Kooky means, but Koi is a carp in Japanese. It was also introduced that Linux is used in the supercomputer FUGAKU.
2nd day
LF Energy was mentioned in the keynote speech, and the LF Energy Mini Summit was held after the keynote speech. There was also a session about LF Edge. It seems that neither LF Energy nor LF Edge is one OSS name, so although the name of the conference says “open source”, I feel that the scope of this summit has expanded considerably.
3rd day
RISC-V was mentioned in the keynote speech, and there was also a session dealing with RISC-V. (Although it happened on other days.) RISC-V is open hardware, so it’s already beyond the scope of “open source”. I was also impressed that the times have changed when a person from Microsoft talked about embedded systems at such Linux-related meetings.
Tomorrow’s theme is …
Everyone might be wondering, “How are other companies working on OSS license compliance activities?” The OpenChain Japan WG conducted a survey to answer such questions and compiled it as a treatise. Tomorrow, one of the authors of the treatise, Endo-san, will talk about the survey results. I hope you all will enjoy it.
Open Compliance Summitは、毎年この時期に日本で開催されているイベントです。名前の通りOSSのコンプライアンスについて議論する場です。Linux Foundationのメンバーだったり招待してもらったりしないと参加できません。チャタムハウスルールが適用されますし、その分濃密な話を期待して良いです。今年は新型コロナの影響でオンラインでの開催になりました。
Open Source Summit Japanとは毎年春の終わりから夏の初め辺りに日本で開催されているイベントです。こちらはコンプライアンスに限定せずOSSについて広く議論する場です。今年はオリンピックと重なるのでそもそもいつもと違う時期に予定されていましたが、新型コロナの影響でこの時期にオンラインでの開催になりました。
今年の内容
1日目
基調講演では最初に、2020年は感染爆発や貿易摩擦などがあった中、OSSは上手くやってきた、という話がありました。それどころか、感染爆発と闘うのにもOSSが使われているそうです。(皆さんの身近なところでは東京都の新型コロナウイルス感染症対策サイトもそうですよね。) 次にAutomotive Grade Linux UCB バージョン10.0の紹介がありました。自動車にはあまり詳しくないので、これ以上は書けませんが、次のバージョンの愛称がKooky Koiだそうです。Kookyの意味は分かりませんが、Koiは鯉のことです。 また、スーパーコンピューター富岳でLinuxが使われていることも紹介されました。
「他の会社ではOSSライセンスのコンプライアンス活動にどう取り組んでいるのだろう」というのは皆さんもとても気になることではないでしょうか。OpenChain Japan WGではそのような疑問に答える調査を行ない、論文としてまとめました。明日はその論文の著者の一人である遠藤さんが調査結果について書きます。楽しみにしていてください。
This advent calendar has been created by our Japanese Work Group as part of their community outreach. We hope you enjoy their recap of compliance topics to end the year.
1.Introduction
Hello, this is Endo who is Promotion SG leader and Automotive Chair of OpenChain. Shane is the main of the article, so I will introduce myself on another occasion.
This year’s Advent Calendar theme is OpenChain Spec ISO. So, today, I received a message in Q & A format from Shane, who is a General manager of OpenChain, Please enjoy it.
2.Message from Shane
Q: Congratulations on ISO conversion of OpenChain Spec!! Please tell us your frank impressions.
A:Open source compliance has existed as long as open source. However, until OpenChain there was no single, objective standard for high quality compliance. People and companies did their best and often did a good job, but they were working in isolation. The global supply chain is interconnected and companies depend on each other. It was necessary to create one clear way to do compliance properly. OpenChain proved this could be done with a short and easy to understand specification.
Now, after almost five years in the market, OpenChain has changed from a widely-used industry standard into a formal ISO International Standard. This means that it is much easier to include in sales and procurement discussions, especially in industries that are not familiar with open source or in managing open source licenses. I believe that OpenChain as an ISO standard has permanently changed corporate use of open source. Over time every company using open source to make products and solutions will be using our ISO standard. I expect it to become as common as ISO 9001 or 14001.
My frank impression is that this ISO standard will allow open source to become a comfortable, trusted choice for any product or solution containing software. It will help make the supply chain more efficient. It will save many millions of dollars in resource management and issue resolution. The impact will be huge.
Q: Please tell us how the community decided to create Spec.
A: In 2015 it was clear that open source was very successful. It had existed in the market for about two decades, but especially in the time period between 2005 and 2015 it became ubiquitous. Open source was in everything from our data centers to our mobile phones to our air conditioners.
The impact of the technology was amazing. However, there was one area which remained a significant challenge. In complex supply chains it was quite difficult to pass open source between companies and to consistently, reliably meet the requirements of open source licenses. This was not due to any ill-intent, but because each company was solving open source compliance in their own way, and a supply chain with 20 or 30 companies meant a lot of variables and differences in license management. Errors would often occur.
OpenChain was born out of the idea of making a single, clear and resource effective way to manage open source in organizations and in a repeatable manner across the supply chain. It was built to provide consistency and to increase trust in supply chains, one company at a time. In other words, it was designed to specifically solve real world problems using the best real world solutions.
Q: What is the OpenChain Spec concept, philosophy?
A: OpenChain defines the key requirements of a quality open source compliance program. Every company using OpenChain can therefore be trusted more than companies using bespoke solutions. OpenChain is carefully designed to be as simple as possible and as agnostic as possible so that companies of all sizes and in all markets can use it. OpenChain distills thousands of human-hours of experience from across hundreds of companies into a seven page standard. It is designed to be the simplest, most elegant solution possible.
Q: I think that many people will meet OpenChain Spec as a result of becoming ISO. If you have a message for such people,
A:Open source provides access to billions of dollars of third-party code. There are some clear, reasonable conditions described in open source licenses. Just like any intellectual property, we need to follow the licenses. However, in the past identifying the best processes to do this was challenging. There were few lawyers, project leaders and engineers who had detailed knowledge about open source licenses. Sometimes information in the public domain, such as on websites, suggested different terms or intentions. The missing part was a clear, simple, reliable and efficient process approach for doing open source compliance. OpenChain changes this. You can adopt the ISO standard or OpenChain 2.1 and know that you have a quality open source compliance program. Today any company in the world can go to www.openchainproject.org and find the International Standard for open source compliance, supporting reference material, free self-certification support, and – if they need it – third-party service providers. No matter who you are, you can build out the same process approach as Microsoft or Qualcomm or Hitachi or Toyota in a way that suits your available resources. This is a remarkable change in the market. If you are a supplier, this is a way to show that you have quality intellectual property management in this space. If you are a customer, this is a way to ensure your procurement includes quality open source compliance. Join us in helping thousands of companies do even better with open source.
3.Tomorrow’s theme is …
Many events related to OpenChain were held at the Linux Foundation Summits this week. Tomorrow, Koizumi-san will introduce these events’ summary . Looking forward to!
This advent calendar has been created by our Japanese Work Group as part of their community outreach. We hope you enjoy their recap of compliance topics to end the year.
International Standardization of OpenChain specification
Hi, I’m Tadayuki Osaki, OSS compliance specialist working for Fujitsu Limited and involved in Open Source Software (OSS) license compliance.
In this article, I briefly introduce the international standardization of OpenChain specification.
From specification to standard
As introduced in Ayumi Watanabe’s first day article, OpenChain specification defines requirements for an organization to establish OSS compliance, and is coordinated by the OpenChain project under the Linux Foundation.
Under the Linux Foundation, there are projects to develop software (code) and to standardize specifications (specification/spec.), for a total of 187 projects as of December 2, 2020.
The figure above plots Linux Foundation projects into two categories: project configuration (Single / umbrella) and project subject (Software (code)/Specification).
The OpenChain project, with its logo at the bottom left of the diagram, is designed to create and standardize specifications, as are the OpenAPI initiative (API standardization) and the Open Container Initiative (Container formatting and runtime standardization).
What is International Standardization?
An international standard is a standard established by international standards organizations. Each member country of the WTO is required to conform its domestic standard to the international standard*, as required by WTO TBT Agreement. By international standardizing a specification, it can be developed and promoted to the domestic standard of each country. *only for international standards enacted by a specified international standards organizations, such as ISO, IEC, and ITU.
In the field of information technology (IT), ISO/IEC JTC1 (First Joint Technical Committee of ISO and IEC), an international standards organization independent from ISO and IEC, handles international standardization of the technical area.
OpenChain specification will be published as an international standard by the end of December, as stated in the second day article by Ayumi Watanabe, after going through the process of international standardization in ISO/IEC JTC1.
It should be noted that the content of documents relating to ISO procedures does not necessarily apply to the procedures of ISO/IEC JTC1, as the details of the procedures differ among international standardization bodies.
Flow of international standardization of OpenChain specification
The flow of the OpenChain specification up to its establishment as an international standard by ISO/IEC JTC1 is shown in the following diagram.
Specifically, the following two steps were taken.
Approved as the PAS submitter for ISO/IEC JTC1 by the Joint Development Foundation (JDF) under the Linux Foundation (May 2015).
As a result, the Linux Foundation is now able to apply to ISO/IEC JTC1 through its own JDF for open specifications (PAS; Publicly Available Specification).
JDF conducts procedures for international standardization of the OpenChain specification to ISO/IEC JTC1. PAS Application Procedures (PAS submission)
Conversion Procedure from PAS Application to International Standard Application (PAS transposition process)
Voting by national bodies (National Bodies) of JTC1 on the International Standard Draft (DIS) (2020/09: approved)
Published as an international standard (publish): 2020/12 planned
Way forward
The international standardization of the OpenChain specification is a big step toward the OpenChain Project’s goal of “Enabling a software supply chain where OSS is delivered with reliable and consistent compliance information”. In the future, the OpenChain Project will promote initiatives such as encouraging countries to establish domestic standards in response to the internationally standardized OpenChain specifications.
Tomorrow’s theme is…
Tomorrow is a message from Shane, General Manager of the OpenChain Project.
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 @ Events
On November 26 the OpenChain Project presented at the LINE Developer Day 2020.
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.
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.
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.