SOSS Fusion

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October 22, 2024 - October 23, 2024    
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The Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Conference is a premier event for both upstream producers and downstream consumers of open source software, bringing together a diverse array of professionals – from the public sector to software developers, security engineers, and cybersecurity experts to CISOs, CIOs, Founders, and tech pioneers.

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ClearlyDefined: A Crowdsourced Database of Licensing Metadata

Wednesday October 23, 2024 11:05am – 11:35am EDT
Salon 4
ClearlyDefined is a free service and open source project from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) that helps organizations ensure supply chain compliance and security. Generating SBOMs at scale for each stage on the supply chain, for every build or release, has proven to be a real challenge. And fixing the same missing or wrongly identified licensing metadata over and over again has been a redundant pain for everyone. This is where ClearlyDefined shines, as it makes it really easy for organizations to fetch a cached copy of licensing metadata for each component through a simple API and fix any issues, which is always up-to-date thanks to its crowdsourced database. In this session, we’ll provide an introduction to ClearlyDefined and discuss the latest developments. We’ll provide case studies of how organizations like GitHub, SAP, Microsoft, and Bloomberg are leveraging ClearlyDefined not only for their own needs internally, but for the benefit of all.

 

Lynette Rayle

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

Lynette Rayle is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub working on license compliance solutions.  She is the technical lead for internal work to accurately identify licenses and attributions for dependencies and has worked on all systems related to the license compliance process.

 

Nick Vidal

Community Manager, Open Source Initiative

Nick Vidal is Community Manager at the Open Source Inititiave and Outreach Chair at the Confidential Computing Consortium from the Linux Foundation. Previously, he was the Director of Community and Business Development at the Open Source Initiative and Director of Americas at the Open Invention Network.