The OpenChain project, supported by the Linux Foundation, establishes an open source compliance framework that allows organizations to adhere to legal requirements and respect the rights of code creators. The specification defines necessary compliance processes and goals, fostering trust through organizational conformance and self-certification. Progress in 2018 included partnerships with law firms and major companies, along with steps towards formal standardization of the compliance framework.

1. Great Open Source Compliance For Everyone
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7. Compliance – A gateway to access
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8. Let’s provide business context
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9. Companies use open source
and get billions of dollars of code
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10. Open source code was created by other people
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11. How we respect their rights?
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12. How do we meet our legal requirements?
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13. The OpenChain Specification defines the requirements
for a quality compliance program.
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Training
Policy
Process
Inbound Outbound

15. Companies have the flexibility to decide the content of
each specific process, policies and training.
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16. The goal is to build trust by having organizations
conformant with the OpenChain Specification.
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17. OpenChain Conformance allows organizations to show
they meet these requirements.
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19. If a company can answer “Yes” to each question they
are OpenChain Conformant.
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20. The OpenChain Curriculum provides reference open
source processes and solutions.
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23. Work Teams supporting OpenChain:
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1.Specification - Chaired by Mark Gisi (Wind River)
1.Conformance - Chaired by Miriam Ballhausen (SCA)
1.Curriculum - Chaired by Alexios Zavros (Intel)
1.Onboarding - Chaired by Nathan Kumagai (Qualcomm)

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25. Progress in 2018
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1. International Partners - from law firms to certification authorities
• Example: Moorcrofts - UK
• Example: TÜV SÜD - Germany and Japan
2. Significant New Board Members
• Example: Toshiba, Facebook, Google, Uber (more announcements shortly)
3. Significant New Community Members
• Example: Microsoft
• Example: Panasonic
4. A move towards formal standardization
• Most likely PAS process for ISO - Launch ETA Q1 2020

26. Be part of this
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Join the community:
https://www.openchainproject.org/community
Self-certify your organization:
https://certification.openchainproject.org

27. Contact: coughlan@linux.com
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