OSPOCO - Open Source Programs Office as a Service @ospoco

OpenUK State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase Two Report "Show us the Money" 2 Parts, Part 1 shares survey outputs, demonstrating in '22, £13.97bn GVA contribution by UK open source businesses to our UK economy being 27% of UK Tech sectorhttps://openuk.uk/stateofopen/ #opensource

New information about complying with the Executive Order on Cybersecurity just came out. See what it means for OSPOs: ospo.co/blog/updated-r…

AI is the next trend in open source. It is time to start thinking about how your OSPO should react. ospo.co/blog/ai-is-the…

AI is coming in "from the bottom," just as open source did. Thankfully, the lessons learned in managing open source can also apply to AI. ospo.co/blog/open-sour…

AI is everywhere these days - and OpenAI is right in the middle of it. But anyone wanting to use OpenAI's tools should make sure they have read OpenAI's terms of use. ospo.co/blog/be-carefu…

Oracle has started a new round of "sales" calls with their latest Java licensing update. It's time to audit your use of Java and switch to a fully open source version. ospo.co/blog/ospo-tip-…

All of our clients are being asked about GitHub CoPilot and the lawsuit against it. We break it down: ospo.co/blog/how-shoul…

OSPOCO is now an official partner of the OpenChain Project. As an official partner, OSPOCO is able to help companies toward OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 compliance and can act as a third-party certifier for organizations that need audits. See more: ospo.co/blog/ospoco-jo…

@ospoco and @TaylorEnglish are the latest participants in the OpenChain Project official partner program. OSPOCO = on-demand open source program office support. Taylor English = legal advice around OSPOCO findings. Learn more: openchainproject.org/news/2023/02/0…

A lot of our clients are overwhelmed when they first start trying to manage their use of open source. Here are some tips to get you started. ospo.co/blog/some-admi…

New case study: G-Research is building a "muscular" OSPO with over thirty technical professionals working all upstream. According to Alex Scammon, head of @oss_gr, direct upstream engagement has been very profitable. ospo.co/case-studies/b…

CoPilot is a machine-learning based tool from Github organization that helps "write" the code for you. It was trained on millions of lines of open source (and other) code - and now is the focus of some legal scrutiny. ospoco.com/blog/github-co…

The risks associated with open source have largely been dealt with by OSPOs and legal teams. But the FTC is raising the risk of poor open source practices to the director level. See part three of our series on increasing legal risks in open source: ospoco.com/blog/the-risk-…

Part two of our series on legal risk in open source: Open source compliance is going to become a mandatory contract term for many suppliers. ospo.co/blog/the-risk-…

Most people don't realize that the legal risk of poor open source practices is increasing. See our take on SFC v. Vizio: ospo.co/blog/the-risk-…