During our recent OpenChain Automotive Event we had some excellent talks. One that we decided to pull out of the main recording and release solo is 'Complexities of Open Source in Automotive' by Russ Eling. This type of high level overview is an excellent starting point for people in complex…
This webinar highlights a new open source tool for open source compliance and security that originates in China. This tool was created by a company called XMIRROR. The open source CLI offers SPDX support, so is immediate interest to tooling communities around the world, particularly from the perspective of integration…
This webinar covers a proposal from the Okinawa Open Labs in Japan to help “label” items in the supply chain to increase trust. Our topic was the Trusted Network Introduction – Eco-system based Open Trust Chaining over existing value-chain and supply-chain, and the presenter was MASANORI TSUJIKAWA (辻川公章) from Alaxala. https://youtu.be/lK2NV5w_o_s Check Out The Rest Of…
This webinar features an update on ClearlyDefined by Nick Vidal at the Open Source Initiative (OSI). A lot has happened since we last covered this project for open source metadata, including the move to a new home at OSI. About The Project ClearlyDefined and its parent organization, the Open Source Initiative,…
This webinar features Alexios Zavras, Chief Open Source Compliance Officer at Intel Corporation and a long-term friend and collaborator around the OpenChain Project. This time the topic was SPDX 3.0, a significant generational update to SPDX, a sister standard to OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 and OpenChain ISO/IEC DIS 18974. SPDX is…
This OpenChain Webinar featured a FOSDEM recap by Philippe Ombredanne of NexB for everyone who did not attend the event in Belgium at the start of 2023. In 2023 FOSDEM had over 8,000 participants and 771 presentations, making it one of the largest open source events in the world by…
This OpenChain Webinar features an overview of GPLv2 licensing fragmentation based on research initiated by Philippe Ombredanne of NexB and continued by Armijn Hemel of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions. The key takeaway is that a significant number of variations exist (40 "vanilla" copies from the FSF or GNU website, 12…
This OpenChain Webinar features OSSelot, an open source curation database recently launched by OSADL in Germany. This project addresses one of the most requested features around open source automation for open source compliance: an open, public database supporting SBOM (via SPDX ISO/IEC 5962) for common software packages. This could be a…
This OpenChain webinar was released as a recording adjacent to the Open Compliance Summit keynotes here in Yokohama, Japan. This time we are having 'A WebAssembly Fireside Chat with Armijn Hemel,’ unpacking work being done around WebAssembly, compliance and the questions lawyers can usefully ask. https://youtu.be/es9-FIRkhFc Get the full report Armijn…
This webinar covers The Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Project. SDV is a Working Group within the Eclipse Foundation that facilitates open source development of automotive software. The aim is to provide a forum for individuals and organizations to build and promote open source solutions for worldwide automotive industry markets.…
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