Japan WG
2019/8/29

OpenChain Japan WG / Licensed under CC0 1.0

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Introduction ofOpenChain ProjectWhat is OpenChain Project?
OpenChain is the official
project of Linux Foundation,
which is the largest
worldwide OSS community.

Mission of OpenChain Project
In order to build trust across the whole OSS supply chain,
define the requirements of compliance program that organizations in
supply chain should establish each self as OpenChain specificationand promote it.
ProductIC Chip
OSS

LicenseOSSIC Chip
LicenseOSS

License

Chip
Vendor

OEM/ODM
VendorProductVendor

OpenChain
Certified

OpenChain
Certified

OpenChain
Certified

OSS Supply Chain (in case of embedded product)

In OpenChain Project,
the word “Specification”
means “Requirements ofcompliance program”.
OpenChain aims todefine and promote theSpecification.Three pillars of OpenChain
 Specification https://www.openchainproject.org/spec• Define the requirements of compliance program that companies should
establish within their organization.
* Latest Version: 1.2 (in various languages), 2.0 (in only English)
https://www.openchainproject.org/translations

 Conformance https://www.openchainproject.org/conformance• Answering the questions, you can prove compatibility with the above
specification.
• In addition, the company name and logo can be displayed on the website.
 Curriculum• The collection of PowerPoint slides for use in in-house educational programs.

OpenChain builds trust across the OSS supply chain by three pillars.
① Define the “Specification”,② and promote its “Conformance” for organizations,③ moreover, provide the “Curriculum”.

Membership Platinum Members• Must be the Linux Foundation corporate member• currently 18 companies

 Community Members• Non-profit OSS projects and individuals

Board, Committee, Work Team
Governing Board

Platinum
MemberRepresentative

General Manager: Shane Coughlan

Chair: David Marr (Qualcomm)Steering Committee

Outreach Committee

OpenChain isrun by General
Manager:Shane Coughlan

Specification
Work TeamConformance
Work TeamCurriculum
Work Team

Onboarding
Work Team

Chair:Mark Gisi

Chair:
Miriam Ballhausen

Chair:
Alexios Zavras

Chair:Nathan Kumagai

OpenChainJapan Work Group

OpenChain Japan WG
 Since 2017/8, Japanese companies (Toyota, Hitachi, Sony)joined the OpenChain.
 Do something interesting using the OpenChain framework• Raise compliance awareness in japan!
• Raise compliance awareness from Japan to Asia!
• Let’s exchange information on compliance issues!
• Create a place where we can discuss in Japanese language!
 We need to associates for these activites ...
• Make a community!

Japan WG is the community of Japanese companiesby Japanese language.

Japan WG Meetings
 1st meeting 2nd meeting 3rd meeting Ad hoc meeting 4th meeting 5th meeting 6th meeting Ad hoc meeting 7th meeting 8th meeting
 9th meeting Ad hoc meeting 10th meeting

2017/12/27
2018/2/22
2018/4/19
2018/6/8
2018/6/13
2018/8/31
2018/10/31
2018/11/20
2018/12/5
2019/2/28
2019/4/18
2019/6/19
2019/7/16@Sony (Tokyo)@Hitachi (Tokyo)@Panasonic (Osaka)@Sony (Tokyo)@Toyota (Nagoya)@Fujitsu (Kawasaki)@Toshiba (Kawasaki)@DensoTen (Kobe)@Tuv Sud Japan (Tokyo)@Mitsubishi Electric (Tokyo)@DensoTen (Kobe)@DeNA (Tokyo)@Fujitsu (Tokyo)

Sub Groups Planning Sub Group FAQ Sub Group Leaflet Sub Group Education Materials Sub Group Exchanging License Information Sub Group Promotion Sub Group Tool Sub Group

OpenChain Japan WG ML
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Subscribers

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Weeks (Since Jan. 2018)https://www.openchainproject.org/→ Get Started →80

100→ Japanese Mailing List

OpenChain Japan WG
 Website: https://www.openchainproject.org/
Get Started → Participate in our Activities
 Japan WG Wiki, Japan WG ML
 OpenChain Main ML, Specification ML
 OpenChain Work Team Conference Call
1st Mondays 9AM, 3rd Mondays 5PM (US West Coast Time) GitHub: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/ Japan-WG-General Onboarding-JWG
 Specification-Translations
 Slack: https://openchain-japanwg.slack.com/

OpenChainJapan Sub Work Group

OpenCain JPWG Planning WG
Overview
 Members• Imada, Endo, Ueda, Kohota, Ouchi, Asaba, Watanabe, Koizumi, Kato,Kusakabe, Aoki
• Fukuchi (Reporter) Activities• Meeting plans•••••

Ad hoc meeting
10th meeting
11th meeting
12th meeting13th meeting

2019/6/19(Wed)2019/7/16(Tue)2019/92019/122020/2

DeNA (Shibuya)
Fujitsu (Kamata)Olympus (Tokyo)
NEC (Tokyo)
DeNA (Shibuya)• F2F meeting (5/29 @Yokohama)••Discussion on how to improve the general meeting
11th agenda draftFAQ Sub Group(Sample)

1. Activity：make and publish FAQ for OSS license

2. Kick-off：2018/10/18
3. Members：25
4. Output： “Frequent Misunderstandings of OSS

license V3” publishing soon (about 20 FAQs)
5. Principles：① Contents are general and for beginners② Do not include contents with unclear license interpretation and that requires judgement
for each business③ Discuss in Slack, and check the contents at meetings before publishing④ Publish after review by lawyers⑤ Publish under CC0-V1.0⑥ Chatham House Ruleparticipants are free to use the information received,
but neither the identity nor the affiliation of thespeaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may berevealed.

Leaflet Project SWG:
What is the Goal of OpenChain?

Ensure that accurate information
about OSS flows from the upstream
timelyDo the same for the downstream

It is necessary for as many people as possible
to know the important points about OSS
What is needed, When we need, Why we need …
In the first place, What is OSS?

To know as many people as possible
 Make a leaflet (16 pages)• Japanese ver.
2000 copies• English ver.
1000 copies• PDF files by CC-0 are also available

 This leaflet is used for not only
communication if supply chain, but also
in-company education
 Plan to distribute in the Open Source
Summit Japan
 Preparing Chinese ver.

Educational material SWG
1. Overview
 Member• Koizumi, Fukuchi• Iwata (Reporter) Activity• F2F meetings: 4 times 5/13､6/4､6/24､7/9 (@Hitachi)• Discuss and make the simple version of educational materials• meeting coordination

2. Analysis of case studies in 4 companies
a. Result of analysisi.

Compliant program description is required to meet Spec.-2.0

i.
ii.
iii.

Consider the excess and deficiency of Curriculum
The simple version is positioned as the follow-up material of the pamphlet
Consider the common contents of basic educationb. Proposal of contents of simple version of common educational
materials i., ii., ⅲ. are required items the common contents of ⅳ.
are emphasized, and some contents of ⅳ. are schematicc. An example of “Sharing of roles and clarification ofresponsibilities” and an example of essential requirements forroles on Spec.-2.0.

3. Create the draft of Simple version of
educational materials and schedulea.Start with the following chapters from case analysis
OSS Overview, Intellectual Property Rights, OSS Utilization, License,
Compliant Program, Summary, Contact, Source / Reference Informationb.Changed to the following chapters through consideration ofdraftingIntellectual Property Rights, FOSS license, FOSS Compliant Program,
Consideration when introducing FOSS, Review, FOSS distribution, Summary,Contact, Source / Reference Informationc.Upload the first Japanese draft version to GitHub
The first English version will be uploaded to GitHub at OSS EU in November

Exchanging license information SWG
 Clarify the information needed between companies (core problemof member companies)
 Define the information needed as license information
 Define the minimum information so as not to increase the burden
Progressing the collaboration with SPDX community : defining SPDX Lite,
discussing guideline
SPDX Community

SPDX Lite definition：Defines the minimum and required
license information necessary forcommercial development

Guideline

Definition ofSPDX Lite

[ Compatible License List ]Presented to SPDX Communityand incorporated into SPDX
definition
Guideline Creation：
Guide the procedure forsupplier toprovide license information using SPDX
/ SPDX Lite
Presenting table of contents to SPDX
Community during initial review

OperationsGuide[ SW Delivery (w/ License Info.) ]SW PKGs
SPDX or
SPDX Lite

Supplier
Supplier

Supplier[ Follow-up Information (security/ver-up) ]Operations Guide：
Outline of inter-company
license processing incommercial development
Created table of contents
and started discussion

Set Vendor/Service Provider

SPDX orSPDX Lite

1Std. SPDX
Tools

Summarizing License Info
[ Contract Conclusion (w/ Lic. Info.) ]CC0-1.0

Tooling SWG
 Main activity：
discussion about tools for OSS supply
chain management Output target•

Summarize available information
about the tool••••• Recent Activities
date
1st
2019/3/13

2nd
2019/4/25

Tool introduction and related seminars

Identify the shortage by mapping
information distribution process andtools
Suggestions for related communities
Data distribution method managed
by the toolHow to work with SPDX tools andthe OSS development community

3rd
2019/6/20

contentsparticipants• Check the CFP• Discussing plan ofactivities

7 companies
14 persons• Introduction of SPDXTools• SW360 – compliancemanagement tool
• Introduction of activities inOpenChain Tooling WG

16 companies
28 persons• Operating SW360 withconsideration about
OpenChain Specification• Brief Introduction into
ClearlyDefined• Try to use CLI / REST APIof FOSSology

11 companies
19 persons

Next meeting ： 8/29
(under recruiting the participants)

OpenChain JPWG Promotion WG
Strategic promotions to people who are not aware of theimportance of OSS compliance in the first place(we are recruiting members!)
Target Levels

Target Duties
Managers

Engineers

Legal affairs/
intellectual property

Government

MediaAcademia