Tomorrow’s regularly scheduled legal team call will be a joint call with the tech team to continue the conversation about the licensing fields and consolidation of such for the 3.0 spec.

By way of background or reminder:

Currently, all license-related fields are contained within the main spec, and are specified as different properties on each SPDX artifact type, i.e., package, Filenes and snippet.

For 3.0, licensing information will be broken out from the base spec and put in a separate "licensing" profile. There was a proposal to consolidate the license fields to have common names and meanings, which can then be applied at the package, file and snippet level.

Steve and I drafted a first pass and we began to go through it on yesterday’s joint tech/legal call. We will continue that review tomorrow. The draft has some comments as per the discussion in the document and the meeting minutes have been posted. Please have a look at both and be ready to hit the ground running!

License fields consolidation draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k_2tSlFXvW_SbW-I1DcSEoCNBMQJd4FEFIQr6KCJuyU/edit#heading=h.wm4ivu55l9q0

Aug 11th joint call meeting minutes: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Technical_Team/Minutes/2020-08-11

Call info:

Thursday @ 9am Pacific / noon Eastern US time

Thanks!

Jilayne