Open Source Summit Europe 2024

This session covers two major topics: Firstly, the significance of an open source management system in the context of IP management for heavily software-dependent companies. Managing open source dependencies is a key pain-point, since so much of modern software development depends on it. Yet only a small number of people truly understand open source beyond “just the code”. Although a company's heavily intellectual property (IP)-involved departments deal with IP management everyday, they are oblivious to open source software. This talk suggests ways to translate the ‘open source talk’ and make these departments your comrades in arms. Secondly, the speakers introduce the OpenChain Specification 2.1 (ISO/IEC 5230:2020) on open source license compliance, aka a framework and a blueprint for how to translate open source management into IP management. This session gives you the tools to turn the view of open source from a potential liability to a valuable asset. The speakers pull from their experience working in IP heavy weights such as Ericsson (more than 60.000 granted patents globally) to put the above into context and give example of Ericsson’s ongoing journey in this area.