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Favorite As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on a transformative year for the ClearlyDefined project. From technical advancements to community growth, this year has been nothing short of extraordinary. Here’s a recap of our key milestones and how we’ve continued to bring clarity to the Open
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Shared by voicesofopensource December 11, 2024
Favorite The Open Source community underpins much of today’s software innovation, but with this power comes responsibility. Security vulnerabilities, unclear licensing, and a lack of transparency in software components pose significant risks to software supply chains. Recognizing this challenge, GitHub recently announced the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund—a transformative initiative
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource December 3, 2024
Favorite Reaching the five-year mark at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been a huge privilege. It’s been a whirlwind of progress, personal growth, and community engagement—filled with highs, great challenges, and plenty of Open Source celebrations. As I reflect on this milestone, it’s impossible not to feel both gratitude
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource November 27, 2024
Favorite One of the major focuses of the ClearlyDefined Technical Roadmap is the improvement in the quality of license data. As such, we are excited to announce the release of ClearlyDefined v2.0 which adds over 2,000 new well-known licenses it can identify. You can see the complete list of new non-SPDX licenses in ScanCode LicenseDB.
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource November 12, 2024
Favorite This past month, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) hosted SOSS Fusion in Atlanta, an event that brought together a diverse community of leaders and innovators from across the digital security spectrum. The conference, held on October 22-23, explored themes central to today’s technological landscape: AI security, diversity in
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource November 6, 2024
Favorite We are excited to announce the newly elected leaders for the ClearlyDefined Steering and Outreach Committees! What is ClearlyDefined? ClearlyDefined is an Open Source project dedicated to improving the clarity and transparency of Open Source licensing and security data. By harvesting, curating, and sharing essential metadata, ClearlyDefined helps developers
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource October 16, 2024
Favorite The software supply chain just gained some transparency thanks to an integration of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) project, ClearlyDefined, into GUAC (Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition), an OpenSSF project from the Linux Foundation. GUAC provides a comprehensive mapping of software packages, dependencies, vulnerabilities, attestations, and more, allowing organizations
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource August 6, 2024
Favorite ClearlyDefined, an Open Source project that helps organizations with supply chain compliance, now provides a new harvester implementation for conda, a popular package manager with a large collection of pre-built packages for various domains, including data science, machine learning, scientific computing and more. Conda provides package, dependency and environment
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource July 23, 2024
Favorite ClearlyDefined is an Open Source project that helps organizations with supply chain compliance. Until recently, ClearlyDefined’s tooling only supported licenses that were part of the standardized SPDX license list. Any component identified by a license that was not part of this list resulted in NOASSERTION, which introduced uncertainty about
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource July 9, 2024
Favorite With all the buzz around SBOMs and Open Source supply chain compliance and security, a new revolution is igniting at ClearlyDefined. This amazing project has been flying under the radar since its inception six years ago, but now this free service and open source project from the Open Source
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 16, 2024