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The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open-source foundations, announced a new working group as well as new industry collaborations focused on helping developers comply with the mounting number of emerging security regulations. The new Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group aims to support participants across the global open-source community in navigating and adhering to evolving regulatory frameworks, bridging the gap between regulatory authorities and the open-source ecosystem to ensure organizations and developers can leverage open-source technologies while remaining compliant with evolving global regulations.
While the working group is chartered to address compliance with open source-impacting requirements in general, the working group’s immediate efforts are centered on ensuring compliance with the rapidly approaching European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The CRA aims to increase the security of products and services with digital components to significantly improve cyber resilience and defines specific protection goals for software and software systems.
Collaboration with Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) to Advance Standards for Open-Source Software Development
The Foundation also announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN), the German Institute for Standardization, to collaborate on bridging the gaps between classic standardization and open-source software development in Germany and across the EU. The shared goal is to empower industry and business to confidently leverage and adopt open-source technologies. Along with collaborative activities such as knowledge exchange, research, development, and promotion, the collaboration is intended to provide support and guidance for projects relating to standardization, including the CRA.
OpenHW Group Joins Eclipse Foundation
The OpenHW Group, an organization focused on developing open-source RISC-V processor cores and IP, will cement their existing Eclipse partnership by becoming part of the Foundation as of December 2024. This integration is intended to accelerate the development of open-source hardware technologies as alternatives to proprietary architectures to benefit a wide array of industries and applications, including artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, IoT, automotive, and high-performance computing (HPC). The OpenHW Group will be renamed the OpenHW Foundation as part of this transition.
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