OpenChain Featured in Linux Weekly News
SAN FRANCISCO, United States, May 18, 2017 — The OpenChain Project was featured in an article entitled ‘License compliance in the open-source supply chain’ in Linux Weekly News. This is part of the media coverage of the OpenChain Specification 1.1 release. Jake Edge of LWN was at our launch speech at the Legal Network Legal and Licensing Workshop in Barcelona and provided detailed coverage.
About The OpenChain Project
The OpenChain Project is a community effort to establish best practices for effective management of open source software compliance. The project aims to help reduce costs, duplication of effort, and ease friction points in the software supply. The OpenChain Project has three Work Teams that collaborate on future refinements of the OpenChain Specification, to develop training materials and create conformance criteria for organizations.
Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project include Adobe, ARM Holdings, Cisco, GitHub, Harman International, HPE, Qualcomm, Siemens and Wind River.
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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