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Embedded Linux distributions

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Call for participation in phase #4 of Open Source OPC UA open62541 support project

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Open Source OPC UA PubSub over TSN project phase #3 launched

Letter of Intent with call for participation is now available

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COOL - Compact OSADL Online Lectures



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What is COOL?

COOL - Compact OSADL Online Lectures: Open Source meets Industry

  • COOL is an OSADL webinar series.
  • COOL takes place regularly once a month and covers new and state-of-the-art topics on Open Source software in industry, either on legal or on technical aspects.
  • COOL editions each consist of two lectures covering a special "Open Source meets industry" topic followed by a discussion round. The first "basic" lecture provides basic knowledge with regard to the respective topic and the second "advanced" lecture dives deeper into the topic and highlights special aspects. The discussion round gives all participants the possibility to ask questions and discuss with the respective speakers and the audience.
  • COOL speakers are OSADL experts on the one hand and external specialists on the other hand who kindly agreed to share their expert knowledge on the respective topic.
  • COOL is a virtual event. The lectures are held by live video streams. Speakers will be available for questions and discussion in a video conference which will take part subsequent to the live video streams.
  • COOL in general is designed to provide support how to best and compliantly use Open Source software in industry.

COOL September 2021 edition

Distributing Docker container applications: Legal challenges and solutions
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 2pm to 4pm CEST
This event has passed. Thank you to all attendees who joined COOL virtually

Agenda COOL September 2021 edition:

2:00pm to 2:45pm CEST:

Basic lecture: Compliant container applications with the OSADL Docker Base Image, Caren Kresse, OSADL

2:45pm to 3:30pm CEST:

Advanced lecture: Container scanning with Tern, Armijn Hemel MSc, Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions

3:30pm to 4:00pm CEST:

Discussion and possibility to ask questions

Description COOL September 2021 edition:

Container technology, in particular Docker, has nowadays reached a certain importance even for embedded systems, where containers are copied and distributed as part of a product. As is the nature of Free and Open Source (FOSS) licensing, copying and distributing FOSS requires fulfilling license obligations. While containers certainly simplify deploying software, fulfilling FOSS license obligations for containers is made difficult by their layered structure and the lack of compliance material in public repositories. In addition, a Docker image includes an entire root filesystem that generally contains various FOSS components in different layers, not all of which are visible when running the final Docker container. The base layer of all containers generally provides essential system components such as a package management system, a C library, and a shell. While license obligations for customized layers must be fulfilled individually by the distributor of the container, OSADL has created the so-called OSADL Docker Base Image to facilitate licensing of Docker containers. This base image is provided together with all required legal information and material needed to distribute it compliantly. A company may build their individual container images on top of the OSADL Docker Base Image and use the provided instructions to fulfill license obligations for the additional software to achieve license compliant container distribution.

The basic lecture of this COOL edition will be devoted to the OSADL Docker Base Image and show how a compliant container application can be built on top of it. It will be presented by Caren Kresse, OSADL, who maintains the OSADL Docker Base Image. The advanced lecture will exemplify the quality assessment of such a Docker image with respect to compliant licensing. A tool that was recently made available to assist checking license compliance is Tern. OSADL is glad that Armijn Hemel, expert in Open Source license compliance and owner of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions, has accepted the invitation to once again speak at a COOL edition. He will use the Tern software package to examine the OSADL Docker Base Image for license compliance. While doing so, he will explain how the software works and how participants of this COOL edition may use it at their facilities.

Participants who would like to make themselves familiar in advance with the general principle of container technology and the related compliance challenges are invited to watch the video recordings of the COOL October 2020 edition on "Open Source software copyright issues with special focus on redistributing Docker images" that are available here -> COOL presentations October 2020 (OSADL member login required in order to display video of the advanced lecture.)

Recommended audience COOL September 2021 edition:

Open Source officers, software developers and system integrators, internal and external legal advisors, purchase department employees who deal with Open Source software, employees of QA departments, etc.

About the speakers of the COOL September 2021 edition:

- Armijn Hemel MSc: Armijn is the owner of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions. He is an active researcher of and internationally recognized expert in Open Source license compliance and supply chain management. He studied computer science at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, where he pioneered reproducible builds with NixOS. In the past he served on the board of NLUUG and was a member of the coreteam of gpl-violations.org. Currently he is a board member at NixOS Foundation. Last but not least, Armijn is the technical auditor of the OSADL License Compliance Audit (LCA).

- Caren Kresse: Caren Kresse holds a Master degree in Physics. Already during her studies she used and appreciated the large amount of Open Source software and she became acquainted with all aspects of Open Source communities. In particular, she specialized on legal aspects of conveying Open Source software and has been working on various aspects of Open Source license compliance with OSADL since 2018. Among others, she leads the OSADL Open Source Policy project and is deeply involved in the OSADL License Obligations Checklists project. Furthermore, she maintains the OSADL Docker Base Image.

Past COOL webinars

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2022

2021

2020


Please click on the respective COOL edition in order to display the full agenda and more details about the lectures and the respective guest speakers.

Download of COOL overview January - April 2024 as PDF file (v2)
Download of COOL overview September - December 2023 as PDF file (v4)
Download of COOL overview January to May 2023 as PDF file
Download of COOL overview September to December 2022 as PDF file
Download of COOL overview January to May 2022 (new - v7) as PDF file
Download of COOL overview September - December 2021 as PDF file
Download of COOL overview January - May 2021 as PDF file

COOL conference language

The COOL sessions will be in English language.

COOL registration

Please use the online registration form to register for a particular COOL edition: Online registration form.
The access data will be sent to the registered participants shortly before the event.

COOL participation fee

Participation in COOL is free of charge.

COOL feedback

We would appreciate if participants of COOL completed and submitted the following feedback questionnaire in order to better meet their requirements and consider their suggestions in future events: Feedback sheet. Thanks in advance.

COOL presentations

The presentations and video clips of COOL will be made available after the event. Material of basic lectures will be publicly available, material of advanced lectures will be available exclusively for OSADL members or participants with login.

COOL Presentations and video clips (Member or participant login required to display material of advanced lectures)

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When you register for participation in the event you agree that the personal data you enter in the registration form will be processed at OSADL as necessary (see our privacy policy).

You may revoke this agreement at any time by email, mail or phone using the communication data provided at the imprint page, but this will also cancel your registration.

Questions?

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have further questions:
Andrea Ruf
officeªosadl.org
Phone.: +49 6221 98504 13