The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation has set goals for 2025 of raising the community infrastructure, processes and tooling profile to accommodate the latest industry standards for supply chain and cybersecurity. The Erlang/OTP team is thrilled to announce that the Erlang/OTP project now are conformant to OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance. The team would like to extend their thanks to EEF staff and community, the OpenChain community, and Ericssons Open Source Program Office for their support in getting to this point.
Erlang/OTP is an open source programming language made for programming concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. The language is more than 30 years old, and has had 1,000s of contributions. By being OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 conformant, we can build confidence among our ecosystem that Erlang/OTP manages licensing effectively, and has processes in place to do this in a sustainable way.
About Erlang:
Erlang is a programming language originally developed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. OTP (Open Telecom Platform) is a collection of middleware and libraries in Erlang. Erlang/OTP has been battle tested in a number of Ericsson products for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications, for example AXD301 (ATM switch). Main developer and maintainer is the Erlang/OTP unit at Ericsson.
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License
Since OTP 18.0, Erlang/OTP is released under Apache License 2.0. The older releases were released under Erlang Public License (EPL), a derivative work of the Mozilla Public License (MPL).
About the OpenChain Project:
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. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.
About The Linux Foundation:
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
