Hi Bastien, The process for requesting a new license be added to the SPDX License List is documented here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md (and happy to get your f

Hi all, A few months ago we began a project to update the license inclusion principles (as well as some other documentation updates in terms of both substance and location). Specifically, currently th

Hi all, As Steve and I are at Open Source Summit (as are others), we’ll skip this week’s meeting. Please check and comment on open Github issues! Jilayne Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and

Hi Steve, I thought we were going to maybe have a demo by the GSoC student who is working on the license submission tool improvements. Is that not going to happen for this call? Thanks, Jilayne

Hi all, Please find the meeting minutes here: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2019-07-11 We had a very fruitful discussion about the SPDX-FileCopyrightText proposal, which is mostly docu

Hi Tanjong, Thanks for sending this to the SPDX legal team and sorry for the delayed response. This looks good, but I have one main concern: how will people know when to submit a license to the namesp

Hi Yegor, We have Matching Guidelines to explain when a license may be a match or not, see: https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/matching-guidelines ISC License has markup to accommodate different names

Thanks Mike!

Hello SPDX legal team members, I wanted to inform you of some updates to the SPDX legal team membership. For some years now, Paul Madick, Karen Copenhaver and I have shared the SPDX legal team leaders

cut and pasting them here, instead of sending a link - maybe that will stir some energy around the last statement in particular… ;) Attendees[edit] John Horan Jilayne Lovejoy Mark Atwood Gary O’Neall

sorry, thought I had sent this last night! agenda: 1) GSoC update 2) 3.6 release (aka lots o’ licenses that still need to be reviewed… Jilayne

Hi all, We’ve been working on some updates and improvements to some of the SPDX License List documentation over the last couple meetings. Below is a bit of a summary of some of the updates and an ask

Andrew! I wanted to get your Solderpad licenses on the last SPDX License List release, but didn’t make it as I had a couple remaining questions and you didn’t respond when I tagged you on Github :) We

from today’s call here: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2019-05-16 please note: we have MANY new license requests. We need review by the whole team (not just one or two of us…) to get de

Agenda: review new license requests - there are a lot of them. Please have a look, if possible, in the Github issues list. Web conference: http://uberconference.com/SPDXTeam Optional dial in number: 4

Hi all, We will have our regularly scheduled call. (see dial in info here: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team) I’d like to make a point to spend a bit of time discussing the topic below. Otherwise,

Hi all, Just a reminder that we have our bi-weekly call today at 10am MDT. I think Europe has now also set their clocks forward so we should all be back to our normal time differences. Being that we j

Hi all, Version 3.5 of the SPDX License List is now released. Most notably, we have added several open hardware licenses (CERN and TAPR), which I think is a really sensible and exciting addition, cons

just a quick note on this: the leftpad issue had some very specific and extenuating circumstances that led to the mess it created which are really not applicable here. So while the legal team will con

Hi all, I’m admittedly a bit late to this party despite having a few thoughts on the topic. This thread has quite a few aspects to it, starting with Jeff’s initial proposal, so I’ll try to hit all of