On July 13, 2024, the Contribution Academy officially commenced its activities with an inaugural ceremony. This year’s academy has garnered significant attention with the participation of FOSSLight Scanner, an open source software scanner. FOSSLight Scanner is a tool designed to analyze the licenses and security vulnerabilities of open source software, and it is set to showcase enhanced features and performance during the academy.

FOSSLight project participated in 2023 Open Source Contribution Academy. The Open Source Contribution Academy is a contribution mentoring program where you can break down entry barriers to open source and experience the open source culture of participating, open, sharing, and collaborating with senior developers by supporting each other’s ‘contributors’. This is a program that has been running steadily for many years. Dabeen Jeong and Jongwoo Han, who were FOSSLight’s mentees last year, and maintainers Kyoungae Kim and Soim Kim served as mentors. As a result of the four mentors and many mentees actively participating and contributing regardless of location, online and offline, we were awarded the President of Korea IT Business Promotion Association. Congratulations to all mentors and mentees!!

On December 1, 2023, LG Electronics was recognized for its contributions to the development of the domestic open source software (OSS) industry by receiving the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the ‘2023 Domestic Open Source Software Industry Development Contributors Award Ceremony.’ This award acknowledges LG Electronics’ active participation in the OSS community and the development and release of its own OSS management tools, FOSSLight Hub and FOSSLight Scanner.

FOSSLight won the ‘Achievement Award’ at the 3rd iNews24 Social D·N·A Innovation Awards. ‘Social D·N·A Innovation Award’ marks the 20th anniversary of iNews24 in 2020, leading public and private innovation and social value realization based on D (Data), N (Network), and A (AI). This award was newly established to discover and disseminate best practices. FOSSLight has been recognized and awarded as an open source software(SW) management tool that the software industry is paying attention to. Kyoungae Kim, leader of Open Source task at LG Electronics said, “FOSSLight is a tool that contains various difficulties and know-how experienced while working in open source compliance for over 10 years. I feel proud that the results of these efforts are very helpful for the open source compliance and management of many companies.”.

Following last year, the FOSSLight project participated in 2022 Open Source Contribution Academy this year. The Open Source Contribution Academy is a contribution mentoring program where you can break down entry barriers to open source and experience the open source culture of participating, open, sharing, and collaborating with senior developers by supporting each other’s ‘contributors’. This is a program that has been running steadily for many years. Especially this year, Dongmin Kang, who was a mentee for the FOSSLight project at the Contribution Academy last year, and Soim Kim, the maintainer of the FOSSLight project, served as project mentors this year. As a result of the two mentors and many mentees actively participating and contributing regardless of location, online and offline, we were awarded the President of National IT Industry Promotion Agency. Congratulations to all mentors and mentees!!

Blackduck’s BOM information now can be sync with FOSSLight Hub’s project using Blackduck CLI tool. For details on how to use this tool, please refer to README of blackduck-fosslight-sync-CLI repository.

Line has introduced FOSSLight Hub as in-house open source management tool after ETRI. At the OSBC Open Source Conference 2022, LINE introduced the reasons for adopting and use cases of the FOSSLight Hub and Scanner under the theme of ‘LINE’s open source, what is happening?’.

ETRI introduced ETRI’s efforts for an open R&D ecosystem in ETRI Webzine Vol.201. In particular, it reported that ETRI is contributing to vitalizing the open source ecosystem by strengthening cooperation with the FOSSLight community.

The release note has been added so that you can check it by clicking the release version under the logo in the upper left corner of FOSSLight Hub. In the release note, you can check the release date, new features, changed features, fixed issues, and deprecated features for each release version.

The FOSSLight Integration tool that can change the identified data of FossID to Excel form and upload it to the project of FOSSLight Hub has been released. For details on how to use the tool, please refer to README of FOSSLight Integration .