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Jeff Luszcz on Open Source Compliance

Compliance is still a personality driven process
When influencers leave, a company’s compliance process often falls apart
Bus Factor=<1 at many companies
Experience levels vary greatly across the industry
BOM Inventory depends on who performed or what process was followed. Same project could report 10 or 1000 libraries depending on tool or person.
Analysis Paralysis is a double edged sword
First reviews lead to either NO reviews or MORE reviews
Remediation is an ART not a Science

The number of packages in a BOM has moved past where humans can easily monitor using spreadsheets

The build environment and tool chain are being ignored by compliance teams at the same time targeted Supply Chain Attacks are increasing

We need to start requiring accurate BOMS in contracts with real teeth

“Internal Audit” is waking up to OSS issues

Pressure building for new FOSS licenses / models

OpenChain has a bright future! Well respected and outside knowledge is growing

Jeff Luszcz on Open Source Compliance

Compliance is still a personality driven process
When influencers leave, a company’s compliance process often falls apart
Bus Factor=<1 at many companies
Experience levels vary greatly across the industry
BOM Inventory depends on who performed or what process was followed. Same project could report 10 or 1000 libraries depending on tool or person.
Analysis Paralysis is a double edged sword
First reviews lead to either NO reviews or MORE reviews
Remediation is an ART not a Science

The number of packages in a BOM has moved past where humans can easily monitor using spreadsheets

The build environment and tool chain are being ignored by compliance teams at the same time targeted Supply Chain Attacks are increasing

We need to start requiring accurate BOMS in contracts with real teeth

“Internal Audit” is waking up to OSS issues

Pressure building for new FOSS licenses / models

OpenChain has a bright future! Well respected and outside knowledge is growing

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Jeff Luszcz on Open Source Compliance

  1. 1. 15 YEARS IN OPEN SOURCE COMPLIANCE Jeff Luszcz jeff@luszcz.com @JeffLuszcz
  2. 2. 15 YEARS IN OPEN SOURCE COMPLIANCE INTRODUCTION – JEFF LUSZCZ  Founded Palamida in 2004  One of the first Scanning tools to manage FOSS  Designed compliance audit program and built out Professional Services team to implement it  Team helped everything from basic compliance, M&A due diligence, and open source project hygiene  Everyone from sole proprietors to largest software companies in the world  Witnessed industry move from dozens of OSS packages to 1000s of packages per BOM
  3. 3. THINGS LEARNED ALONG THE WAY  Compliance is still a personality driven process  When influencers leave, a company’s compliance process often falls apart  Bus Factor=<1 at many companies  Experience levels vary greatly across the industry  BOM Inventory depends on who performed or what process was followed. Same project could report 10 or 1000 libraries depending on tool or person.  Analysis Paralysis is a double edged sword  First reviews lead to either NO reviews or MORE reviews  Remediation is an ART not a Science
  4. 4. WHAT IS HARD FOR COMPANIES?  New code is valued over “maintenance” and no dev cycles are earmarked for compliance*  (*outside of post M&A work)  Top level package licenses can be managed but inner- package licensing is difficult to understand  The typical BOM undercounts by 99%!  Each layer (build, dev, deployed) is managed by different teams who all are scared to call the lawyers  “Here be dragons issues” like Old code with non- standard licenses from dead people
  5. 5. WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON  The number of packages in a BOM has moved past where humans can easily monitor using spreadsheets  The build environment and tool chain are being ignored by compliance teams at the same time targeted Supply Chain Attacks are increasing  We need to start requiring accurate BOMS in contracts with real teeth  “Internal Audit” is waking up to OSS issues  Pressure building for new FOSS licenses / models  OpenChain has a bright future! Well respected and outside knowledge is growing
  6. 6. THANKS! CONTACT: Jeff Luszcz jeff@luszcz.com @JeffLuszcz

Editor's Notes

  • We quickly discovered we need the human touch as well
  • In terms of maturity We don’t have this problem with financial compliance
    Experience impacts trust
    Still at the mercy of the right person being in the right place at the right time, affects the trustworthiness of a company
    Analysis paralysis: can lead to either ignoring the problem and pushing off compliance OR calling in the experts to fix things ASAP
    If we did a scan and everything was MIT or Apache 2.0 no one would have problems deciding to run a scan
  • In 2019 we are still not scheduling time for compliance
    Old code with non-standard licenses from dead people: this is problem with some of our core infrastructure that I hope projects like Clearly Defined or similar can help fix
    We all probably have “That File” or “That Package” we wish could get cleared up

  • There are holes in which we are monitoring. The build environment. I’m very concerned about this
    I’m still amazed that the level of quality in BOMs produced by companies is so large.
    The company with the better BOM can sometimes be penalized and that’s just wrong.

    In my interactions with companies who are not on the open chain calls, there is growing awareness. They are happy to see this, even if they don’t feel they can offer any help.




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