These variant licenses would simply end up needing to be added as a “nonstandard” license, meaning the SPDX generator would not be able to use the standardized SPDX license list shortname for that

Please let us know if you are coming to the Face to Face meetings at the LF Collaboration Summit If you came late to the meeting today and I did not log your attendance, please let me know. Because of

Another update on the mailing list numbers: spdx: 98 spdz-biz: 17 spdx-legal: 23 spdx-tech: 21 -- Martin Michlmayr Open Source Program Office, Hewlett-Packard

Yes! We are closely following evolution of the SPDX standard. We will eventually align FOSSology to adopt the standard. Mary Mary Laser The FOSSology Project http://fossology.org

Sorry, got my months mixed up…Feb had a Thurs 24 too! But the meeting is March 24. From: Phil Odence <podence@...> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:10:03 -0400 To: "spdx@..." <spdx@...> Subject: FW:

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Hi all I'm interested in using FOSSology and the SPDX standard for future projects. It would be great to have at least one well supported open source software solution like FOSSology which is using

I agree. I wonder if a solution is to allow the specification of "variant" of a license. Perhaps a way to say: the closest license is this one, with a text similarity metric of X, and where the

I believe we already discussed this to some degree and decided that we would not enter the arena of word equivalents with the exception of spelling variations for known American-British English.

Thanks Daniel, Will look into adding this after we can get the guidance from the lawyers as to what varients are equivalent. ;) Kate

I think it is going in the right direction. You should look at the way Ninka normalizes test for in-file licenses (BSD, MIT, etc). For the BSD and MIT variants the problems are not only spelling,

Agenda Legal WorkStream 23-March-2011 (1) Re-Report SPDX Tools License Conclusion - Apache 2.0 (2) Revised Section 5.3 into Beta Spec. (3) SPDX Metadata StrawMan: (a) - Need for SPDX Metadata

We got an update on the training materials and finished laying out the process to add a new license. See minutes link

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I’m traveling and will miss the call today. KIm On Thu 3/10/11 1:42 AM, "Philip Odence" <podence@...> wrote: Kim Weins | Senior Vice President, Marketing kim.weins@... Follow me on Twitter

Normal time and Dial in number. Minutes from last meeting are posted in the usual location. Excuse the late and incomplete notice. I'm without internet or good phone coverage. Kate has kindly

Normal time and Dial in number. Minutes from last meeting are posted in the usual location. Excuse the late and incomplete notice. I'm without internet or good phone coverage. Kate has kindly

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