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Webinar: Compliance @ GitLab

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We took a look at how GitLab addresses compliance for this webinar on the 20th of July. Mo Khan, Senior Backend Engineer, explained the approach offered to users and why it is effective. One of the most interesting things we explored is how it all works with CI/CD, a hot topic in the OpenChain community and beyond.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #8, released on 2020-07-20.

富士通のオープンソースへの取り組み

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はじめに

こんにちは。富士通の青木です。
富士通で唯一”オープンソースソフトウェア(OSS)”という名前が付く組織「OSS技術センター」に所属しています。
私のプロジェクトでは、社内でのOSS利活用推進全般を実施しています。
今日は、OpenChainプロジェクトの活動に至るまでの富士通のOSS専門組織や社内の関連部門とスクラムを組んで歩んできた取り組みについてご紹介します。

富士通のオープンソース専門組織「OSS技術センター」

富士通とOSSとの関わりは、1999年に富士通サーバーのLinuxサポートをスタートし、現在のOSS技術センターの前進組織として2000年1月設立の富士通Linuxセンターが発足しました。

OSS技術センターの発足

ミッションクリティカルな領域でOSSがどんどん使われるようになり、富士通社内でもOSSの重要性が認知されて、お客様の要件や用途に合わせた適材適所なオープン技術の選択によってお客様の新たな価値を創造していくことを目指して2005年11月に専門組織「OSS技術センター」が組織化されました。

OSSの選定や技術支援など富士通のフィールドと一体となった活動には多くの実績がありますが、ここ3年ほどはOSSのライセンスリスクや技術リスクなどをお客様自身が課題ととらえて、様々な相談が寄せられるようになってきています。

社内でのOSSコンプライアンス活動

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社内では、ツールを利用したOSSの混入チェックや、ライセンスポリシーを自動判定、さらにBOM管理を実施して、脆弱性を通知するサービスを開発部門へ提供し、OSSのライフサイクルマネージメントを実現しています。

主に実施していること
・利用しているOSSの見える化。
・製品で利用しているOSSコンポーネントとライセンス情報や脆弱性情報との紐付け。
・会社として問題ないと判断したソフトウェア/バージョン/ライセンスのリスト化と判定。
・工程ごとの承認の仕組みとエビデンスを導入。(ワークフロー機能)

社内プロセスの整備

上記の仕組みを確立するまでは、長い時間をかけ、知財部門、品証部門、もちろん開発部門も巻き込んで、社内でライセンスを正しく守りつつOSSを利用するための枠組みを整理しました。
知財部門が中心となって、OSS利活用ガイドを作成しルールとプロセスを定め、全社規格や部門規格にOSSの規定を盛り込んでいます。

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富士通では、適用領域が多岐にわたることもあり、複数の部門横断の体制を組み総合力を活かしてOSSの活用を推進しています。

OSSの利用拡大と全社教育

OSSがOSの模倣や商用製品の代替と呼ばれていた時代から変化し、AIなどをはじめとするデファクト技術がOSSから生まれるようになり、我々の業務もかなり変化をしていると感じます。
少し前までは開発に携わるキーマンがOSSのライセンスについて熟知していればよかったところ、今や調達部門や営業部門などもOSSに対する知識を身に着けていく必要があると感じています。
そこで従来は、開発部門に向けた集合教育やe-learningをメインに実施していましたが、2年前に全社員を対象にしたリテラシー教育を新規に作成し、e-learningでいつでもだれでも受講できるようにしています。
どちらかというと、OSSのライセンスの話や義務履行の話が多いため、今はOSSのコントリビューションの教育を整備しているところです。

OpenChainプロジェクトとの関わり

2017年12月のJapan WG発足時に、トヨタさん、日立さん、SONYさん達と富士通の知財部門や組込みLinuxの開発部門がOpenChainの日本の活動を盛り上げようと参加しています。
サブWGのFAQ, ライセンス情報, Planning, Promotionなどなどで10名ほどが活動しています。
富士通では、グループ会社を含む全社活動のOSS利活用WGにてその活動報告を共有し、仲間づくりを進めつつ、もっともっと参加していくべきということで、2019年2月にplatinumメンバーになりました。
今年度は、社内でも全社員に向けたメールマガジンで、OpenChainの紹介をしたり、Japan WGの本会合を社内で開いたりして、今まで興味をもっていなかった営業部門ほか関係部門の方々にも活動をアピールしています。

SPEC2.0 認証

2019年11月に富士通は自己認証を取得しました。もともと整備してきたOSSの全社規格や部門規格をあらためて見直し、OpenChain仕様にそって改善を加え、知財部門、OSS技術センター、開発部門(組み込みLinux開発部門・ソフトウェア事業部門)と大きな組織で教育展開を一斉に実施し、認証を取得しました。
これは、従来のプロセスやルールを振り返るとても有意義な取り組みで、教育の再実施により、デファクトスタンダードとなる仕様と自分たちの実践活動を紐づけができた、とてもいい機会となりました。今後も継続して仕様に準拠して取り組んでいきたいと思います。

OSPOとして

OSS技術センターが富士通のOpen Source Program Officeとして社内外から認知されて相談に乗れるように、今後も専門組織として取り組んでいきます。
また、富士通はグローバルカンパニーとして、富士通の北米、欧州、アジア部門とも連携してOpenChainの取り組みをはじめ、連携しながら活動していきます。

今後は、社内実践で培ったノウハウをお客様やパートナー様へ向け提供し、OpenChainプロジェクトやオープンソースへの貢献を実施していきたいと思います。

明日のテーマは・・・

明日は、浜さんのFossology の新しいOSSライセンススキャンについてです。Fossologyは私も使っていて今後SW360との連携もとても興味深いです。楽しみにしています!!

Webinar: Lessons Learned + Future Leaders

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This webinar covered two strategic topics. VM (Vicky) Brasseur opened with a discussion on Lessons Learned over her wide-ranging career in open source and business. Katy Gibson and Robert Grannells then discussed how an initiative in the UK is fostering Future Leaders in our field, a timely topic given recent observations by parties like Linus regarding the challenge of finding new blood to take over old projects.

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VM (Vicky) Brasseur corporate strategist, open source & technical leader, author, speaker Resume Book About Publications Presentations

VM (Vicky) Brasseur is an award-winning free/open source advocate and corporate strategist, international keynote speaker, and writer. She’s the author of Forge Your Future with Open Source, the only book detailing how to contribute to free/open source (FOSS) projects. Aside from articles in various publications, she also writes about FOSS, business, and their intersection on her blog.

Katy Gibson – Associate Commercial IP/IT Solicitor – Bristows LLP – Co-chair of the OpenUK Future Leaders Group

Katy is an Associate in the Commercial IP/IT Team at Bristows LLP and advises on a variety of matters involving data protection, IT and intellectual property for clients in a range of industries, including those within the Life Sciences and TMT sectors. She trained at Bristows and qualified in 2018.

Robert Grannells – Associate Technology Solicitor – Fieldfisher LLP – Co-chair of the OpenUK Future Leaders Group

Robert is a technology lawyer experienced in advising a variety of clients of all sectors and sizes, on a variety of issues across software, hardware, infrastructure, networking, open source and web technologies. He has extensive knowledge of the actual technology underpinning what his clients do, want they want to use and how they need it to work to get business done.

Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK

Amanda is CEO of the UK body for “open technology being open source software, open hardware and open data”, OpenUK; the Chair of the Open Source and Intellectual Property (IP) Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs;  European Representative of the world’s biggest defensive patent pool, the Open Invention Network;  OASIS Open Projects’ Advisory Council Member(open source and open standards); Advisory Board Member KDE; Advisory Board Member Beamery and Mentors C Suite individuals. 

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This is OpenChain Webinar #7, released on 2020-07-08.

CP1 Associates is the Latest OpenChain Conformant Organization

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CP1 Associates is the latest OpenChain Conformant organization. This is a UK-based company with an extensive history in the use of open source.

“CP1 provides consultancy and CIO services to organizations across the UK,” says Chris Puttick, Founder of CP1 Associates. “As with most companies, we make extensive use of open source, and adoption of the OpenChain standard for open source compliance helps both to ensure we have the key requirements for such a program in place and harmonization with the larger global software community.”

“Companies like CP1 Associates are an extremely important part of the OpenChain ecosystem,” says Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager. “One of the key tenants of our industry standard is that it is equally applicable and useful to small organizations and multinational conglomerates. As we finalize our ISO publication, functionally identical to the current OpenChain standard, we are seeking to underline this fact in the simplest, most practical way: adoption.”

“It’s great news that CP1 has become part of the OpenChain conformant family,” says Andrew Katz, Moorcrofts. “It shows that OpenChain is flexible enough that the specification can be adopted by smaller companies, and puts CP1 in pole position when it comes to pitching for work from the growing roster of international companies who are seeking OpenChain conformance as a key factor in appointing their suppliers.”

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OpenChain Newsletter #38

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Newsletter – Issue 38 – June 2020


We have two big announcements leading the news this month.

Cisco Systems, Inc (Cisco), a Platinum Member of the OpenChain Project, announced conformance with the industry standard for open source compliance in the supply chain on June 2. As a founding member of the OpenChain Project, Cisco has been instrumental in defining, developing and deploying both the standard and its extensive corpus of reference material. Their conformance marks another milestone in the broadening adoption of the standard throughout silicon, embedded, mobile, telecommunications, enterprise, software and cloud market segments.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/02/cisco-systems-inc-announces-openchain-conformance

Fujitsu

Fujitsu, an OpenChain Platinum Member, is the first organization to attain two OpenChain 2.0 conformant programs. Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu personnel support customers in more than 100 countries.
https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/03/fujitsu-attains-second-openchain-conformant-program


OpenChain @ Webinars #5 & 6:

OpenChain @ Work Groups (Selected Highlight)

  • The OpenChain UK Work Group is being launched with its first meeting on July 23. The inaugural UK meeting, which follows the path of successful OpenChain work groups established in China, Japan, Germany, Korea, India and Taiwan, will feature an introduction from Shane Coughlan who leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. Andrew Katz (Orcro) and Sami Atabani (Arm) will share their experiences of OpenChain implementation in the real world.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/30/openchain-uk-work-group-launches-on-july-23rd

OpenChain @ Events (Selected Highlight)

  • The OpenChain Project and its collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation was explored during a session at the ISO WG21 2020 Plenary on the 9th of June. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager, lead the primary discussion and Seth Newberry, General Manager of Standards at Joint Development Foundation, explained the JDF PAS approach both in terms of OpenChain and more broadly in the years ahead.
    https://www.openchainproject.org/featured/2020/06/09/openchain-at-iso-wg21-2020-plenary-9th-june

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OpenChain Reference Tooling Work Group – Next Meeting July 1st 2020 at 6pm CET

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Proposed Agenda

1. News                                                                                         All
2. Github repo                                                                             Oliver
3. Fossology scanning in CI                                                      Gaurav Mishra

If you have any suggestions for the agenda please let Oliver at oliver.fendt@siemens.com know.

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OpenChain Specification 2.0 in Simplified Chinese – Updated content to improve readability and accuracy

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Our friends from OPPO have updated the OpenChain Specification 2.0 in Simplified Chinese.

This is useful if you want to check out the details of our International standard for open source compliance.

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Webinar: OpenChain China, Japan, Korea – a discussion on community building

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In this webinar we covered “OpenChain China, Japan, Korea – a discussion on community building” featuring short interviews with Jerry (China), Haksung (Korea) and Fukuchi San (Japan) about local community activity. Our goal was to share knowledge on what has worked, what has not, and how momentum can be kept in these unusual times. We hope these lessons will assist our fellows in Europe and North America while also illustrating some of the key successes in Asia.

This is part of the bi-weekly OpenChain Webinar series. Every two weeks we have international speakers covering a wide range of topics related to practical open source compliance challenges, solutions and considerations.

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This is OpenChain Webinar #6, released on 2020-06-22.