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Introduction to ISO/IEC 5230 OpenChain Standard Open Source Management

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Introduction to ISO/IEC 5230 OpenChain Standard Open Source Management
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Thu, 05/20/2021 – 16:17

The OpenChain Project

In 2013 the Linux Foundation started the OpenChain Project led by Shane Coughlan. The project sought to define an effective specification for open source license compliance throughout the software supply chain.

So why is compliance important?

David Rudin, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft says,