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The OpenChain Project has a comprehensive reference library covering all aspects of open source compliance management, including numerous resources related to training, policy and process content. This official and community-sourced reference material has been extensively reordered to allow easier discovery of content and to provide a multi-language first approach.

This involved consolidating 43 repositories into 1 to ensure anyone can quickly access, download, share and remix our extensive CC-0 material, while also being able to access, download and share case studies and similar material under different licenses.

At the same time as reorganizing the 395 documents in the reference library we took the opportunity to make the official Specification and translation easier to browse, to make our community image assets simpler to access, and to locate the project charter and other official agreements in a single location.

We invite you to check out the results and to help us expand, improve and translate the material ahead of becoming an ISO standard.

All Reference Material and Translations in One Location

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Reference-Material

Our Official Specification and All Community Translations

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Specification

Our Community Image Assets

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Image-Assets

Our Project Charter and Official Agreements

• https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Project-Charter-And-Agreements

We invite you to check out the results and to help us expand, improve and translate the material ahead of becoming an ISO standard.

We had an excellent OpenChain Global First Monday call. It covered a lot of news and we had a robust, useful discussion on some items in the specification.

Review the Agenda

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_agenda_2020-03-02.pdf

Watch the Video Minutes

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PogZgLLeKyc

All Our Agenda Slides and Minutes

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/minutes

This is a record of the OpenChain Project Work Team Call from 03-02-2020.

Get the agenda slides

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchain_agenda_2020-03-02.pdf

Watch the video minutes

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PogZgLLeKyc

All OpenChain call outcomes are archived on our wiki

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/minutes

PwC offers Open Source Software management compliance attestation according to the OpenChain industry standard. Thanks to a global PwC reporting platform, the report can be made available to all clients, effectively demonstrating the professional and appropriate handling of Open Source Software.

Suppliers will benefit from PwC OSS certification in invitations to tender, in the initiation of contracts and in negotiations with purchasing departments. At the same time, they will benefit from the outwardly presentable proof of OSS compliance when selling their products and services, as they create confidence in their products

Specifics on PwC OpenChain Services

• https://www.pwc.de/en/opensource/certification

Check Out the Case Study Created for OpenChain

• https://www.openchainproject.org/resources/openchain-case-study-pwc

More About Their Open Source Work

• https://www.pwc.de/en/opensource

The OpenChain Japan Work Group has run an active licensing sub-work group throughout 2019. Their activity has been focused on practical applications of a streamlined Software Bill of Materials using core attributes of SPDX. Now that the work is advanced, collaboration with the SDPX Project is fully established, and we are heading into production it is time to highlight the individuals behind this initiative.

Great Thanks are Due To

• Toru TAIMA
• Yuji NOMURA
• Yoshiyuki ITO
• Yoshiko OUCHI
• Norio KOBOTA
• Hiroyuki FUKUCHI

Taima-san from Pioneer is the senior contributor to this effort who defined the initial fields based on a practical business use case.

Nomura-san from Hitachi, Ito-san from Renesas and Ouchi-san from Fujitsu proposed improvements to the SPDX Lite description and format.

Kobota-san from Sony took lead on confirming full compatibility between SPDX and SPDX Lite.

And of course Fukuchi-san from Sony proposed the original concept, formed the sub-work group, and wrote the proposal of SPDX Lite.

In addition to these contributors all the members of “license info” sub-group contributed to the work and final go-to-market activity.

Learn More

• https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/jwg_lincense_sg_page

The 5th meeting of the OpenChain Korean Work Group scheduled to be hosted by Kakao in Seoul on the 19th of March has been cancelled. The cancellation is due to COVID-19 and joins recent cancellations of face-to-face work group meetings in China and Japan.

We are exploring the possibility of holding the meeting via teleconference. Most details to follow soon.

More Information on the Korea Mailing List

• https://lists.openchainproject.org/g/korea-wg

DLA Piper’s Open Source In-house Counsel Discussion series is managed by and for in-house counsel, providing them with a venue to discuss open source legal issues under the Chatham House rule. Following on our initial meeting in Fall 2019, we will holding OSS In-house Counsel Discussions every quarter, alternating between morning and afternoon to enable participation from Europe and Asia, respectively.

We will explore the following topics (thanks to our volunteers!), as well as other late-breaking issues:

• Recent Developments in OSS – led by Mark Radcliffe, Chair of OSS Group,  DLA Piper
• GPL Dispute: Ubiquiti Networks vs. Cambium Networks.
  These two companies are both raising claims about GPL violations. This case and the Versata line of cases demonstrate that claims around GPL violations are now being brought in suits between commercial entities, as well as highlight the importance of compliance with license obligations – led by Nissa Strottman, Vice President, VP, Product and Operations.
• OSS and Cloud.
  Cloud-based platforms and software offerings – whether application, computer or storage – are among the fastest-growing areas of the industry. We will discuss the different legal implications based on different distribution or deployment models – led by Christine Lam, Director of IP at Netapp.
• OpenChain Update. 
  The OpenChain Project is very active with major companies such as Microsoft becoming certified. The OpenChain Project expects to receive ISO certification soon. Shane will discuss his predictions about the effect of ISO corticationled by Shane Coughlan, General Manager, OpenChain at Linux Foundation.

Our Regular OpenChain Third Monday call was held today at 5pm Pacific. We had attendees from Korea, Japan and the USA. This call caught everyone up with the latest news and provided a forum to discuss next steps in our conformance, reference and other material.

Watch the Call

Get the Slides

The OpenChain Project periodically releases overview slides with speaker minutes to help explain our activities to organizations. These slides are designed to support local speakers with extensive notes. You can download them via SlideShare. Please feel free to share these slides with everyone who may be interested.

View the Slides