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SPDX License List version 3.5 now live
J Lovejoy
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, considering we already have open documentation and data licenses on the list. We are still missing the Solderpad licenses, but those are slated to be added for the 3.6 release. Highlights include: - New licenses/exceptions added: 7
- Addition of markup to various licenses and other minor updates - Add page describing entire workflow for adding a new license in /DOCS directory thanks, Jilayne |
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Thursday SPDX General Meeting Reminder.
Phil Odence
Our talk for this session with be from Gary O’Neall and Steve Winslow:
SPDX: Bridging the Compliance Tool Gap Any organization which utilizes open source software needs to comply with the open source license terms and the specific security policies of their industry. To satisfy the basic requirement of knowing the specific open source packages included in the software, several tools have been produced which create or manage a software “Bill of Materials”. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) defines a standard format for a Bill of Materials which can facilitate harmonious integration of multiple tools.
This is a reprise of a very well-received talk they gave at the LF Open Source Leadership Summit earlier this month. If you have colleagues, friends or partners that would like to learn SPDX, this would be great 30 minute intro. Please invite them.
GENERAL MEETING
Meeting Time: Thurs, April 4, 8am PST / 10 am CST / 11am EST / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
New dial in number: 415-881-1586 No PIN needed
The weblink for screenshare will stay the same at:
Administrative Agenda Attendance Minutes Approval: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2019-03-07
Special Presentation – Gary/Steve
Technical Team Report – Kate/Gary
Legal Team Report – Jilayne/Paul
Outreach Team Report – Jack
Any Cross Functional Issues –All
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Krys Nuvadga
Hi Belen, Welcome to SPDX, We are glad you find our project idea interesting. Join the developers community on gitter at https://gitter.im/spdx-org/Lobby to discuss your ideas and questions. Best regards On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 7:46 PM Maria Belen Guaranda <mabegc@...> wrote: Hello! My name is Belen Guaranda. I am an undergraduate Computer Science student from Ecuador, in my last semester of studies. I am interested in working on the project "Develop a Distributed License Repository Application" for SPDX in this year's GSoC. I have solid background in web development, both front-end (HTML,CSS,Vue,Boostrapa) and back-end (Django,Node,Nginx,SQL and NoSQL databases), as well as testing (Travis,Pylint,Coveralls,UnitTests). I'd like to discuss some details and doubts with the mentor if possible. -- krys Nuvadga Piar, Inc. |
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Maria Belen Guaranda <mabegc@...>
Hello! My name is Belen Guaranda. I am an undergraduate Computer Science student from Ecuador, in my last semester of studies. I am interested in working on the project "Develop a Distributed License Repository Application" for SPDX in this year's GSoC. I have solid background in web development, both front-end (HTML,CSS,Vue,Boostrapa) and back-end (Django,Node,Nginx,SQL and NoSQL databases), as well as testing (Travis,Pylint,Coveralls,UnitTests). I'd like to discuss some details and doubts with the mentor if possible.
Best regards, Belen |
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GSOC-2019
Hardik Sapra
Hello everyone, My name is Hardik. I am a first-year Computer Science student from India. I'm completely new to Open Source Organizations and their working. I would like to contribute to "SPDX Document Generator for projects using SPDXIDs" using my knowledge of Python. Any help on how to get started with it and help the community would be helpful. Thanks Hardik |
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Re: Special SPDX Talk Next Week - CORRECTION
Phil Odence
April 4, fixed below.
The good news is we also have speaker for the May call I was in contact with at the same time which is why I was crossing wires.
From: "podence@..." <podence@...>
For our SPDX General Meeting call next week we will have a presentation from Gary O’Neall and Steve Winslow called: SPDX: Bridging the Compliance Tool Gap Any organization which utilizes open source software needs to comply with the open source license terms and the specific security policies of their industry. To satisfy the basic requirement of knowing the specific open source packages included in the software, several tools have been produced which create or manage a software “Bill of Materials”. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) defines a standard format for a Bill of Materials which can facilitate harmonious integration of multiple tools.
This is a reprise of a very well-received talk they gave at the LF Open Source Leadership Summit earlier this month. I will send out the normal General Meeting reminder, however I wanted to mention this earlier because you might want to share with others. If you have colleagues, friends or partners that would like to learn SPDX, this would be great 30 minute intro. Please invite them.
April 4, 11am EDT, 8am PDT, 4pm UK summer time, too late Japan time New dial in number: 415-881-1586 No PIN needed The weblink for screenshare will stay the same at:
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Special SPDX Talk Next Week
Phil Odence
For our SPDX General Meeting call next week we will have a presentation from Gary O’Neall and Steve Winslow called: SPDX: Bridging the Compliance Tool Gap Any organization which utilizes open source software needs to comply with the open source license terms and the specific security policies of their industry. To satisfy the basic requirement of knowing the specific open source packages included in the software, several tools have been produced which create or manage a software “Bill of Materials”. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) defines a standard format for a Bill of Materials which can facilitate harmonious integration of multiple tools.
This is a reprise of a very well-received talk they gave at the LF Open Source Leadership Summit earlier this month. I will send out the normal General Meeting reminder, however I wanted to mention this earlier because you might want to share with others. If you have colleagues, friends or partners that would like to learn SPDX, this would be great 30 minute intro. Please invite them.
May 4, 11am EDT, 8am PDT, 4pm UK summer time, too late Japan time New dial in number: 415-881-1586 No PIN needed The weblink for screenshare will stay the same at:
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Re: announcing: Open Source Compliance Handbook
J Lovejoy
and here is the link to that announcement that I forgot to include before: https://www.finos.org/blog/announcing-the-open-source-license-compliance-handbook
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announcing: Open Source Compliance Handbook
J Lovejoy
Hi SPDX folks (legal and general list), I want to tell you about a project I’ve been working on with Aaron Williamson and the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) that I think many of you may be interested in. FINOS has announced the initial release of the Open Source License Compliance Handbook. The Handbook is itself an open source project, available on Github. It consists of:
We're excited to get this resource into the hands of the community and get your input and contributions, as well as ideas on the potential to integrate this into all the great open source tooling that is out there. Aaron and I recognize that there's always the potential for ruffled feathers at efforts to "summarize" licenses and I have no doubt some of our efforts are imperfect. But the Handbook is meant for a particular purpose -- not to exhaustively summarize licenses or address every GPL corner case, but to help developers and compliance professionals address the most common requirements in the most common use cases. Please take a look, file an issue, or submit a pull request :) (Be warned, FINOS requires signing a dreaded CLA first!) Thanks, Jilayne |
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SPDX General Meeting Minutes
Phil Odence
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2019-03-07
General Meeting/Minutes/2019-03-07< General Meeting | Minutes · Attendance: 5 · Lead by Phil Odence · Minutes of Feb meeting approved
Contents[hide] Tech Team Report - Gary[edit]· Tools · Google Summer of Code · Accepted again · Lots of activity from students · *Plenty of ideas · Spec · Jack jumped in to help with publishing from GitHub · Started up APAC SPDX call · Lots of interest from Automotive · Discussion of “SPDX Lite” · “Files analyzed” field set to zero changes many required fields to option · Will be monthly
Legal Team Report - Paul[edit]· License List · Working through new licenses, normal stuff
Outreach Team Report[edit]· No update. · Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys · Steve Winslow, LF · Mark Atwood, Amazon · Paul Madick, Dimension Data · Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
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Reminder SPDX General Meeting today
Phil Odence
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Re: Mentorship for GSOC Project
J Lovejoy
Hi Kumar,
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Thanks for your interest in SPDX! As you have not joined the SPDX mailing list, I have approved your message and also copied the SPDX tech team here. I believe the tech team is who you need to talk to about a GSOC mentor. More information about our 3 working teams and the general list can be found here: https://spdx.org/participate I would recommend that you sign up for the tech mailing list as soon as possible! The direct link for that is: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx-tech thanks! Jilayne SPDX legal co-lead
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Mentorship for GSOC Project
b115012@...
Hi , I, Kumar Saurabh, a final year student at IIIT Bhubaneswar, majoring in Computer Science and engineering. Being passionate about product development, I find developing application development exciting. A background in engineering has allowed me to develop an in-depth, analytical approach and strengthen my critical thinking ability; I have written this email to seek mentorship for GSOC project .I thoroughly gone through the projects.Enhanced Workflow for online license request and Additional format support for Python interests me lot.I am quite proficient in python and done quite amount of projects in XML,JSON and PDF parsing.I am quite comfortable in API development using FLASK .I would like to contribute to these projects. Could you help me with some basic initial information,so that i can get some head-start .Once i get acquainted with the existing workflow,I will present you a Proof of Concept ,so that we can be on same page. I look forward hearing from you. Thank you. Kind regards, |
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Joining technical team of SPDX
bhavys@iitk.ac.in <bhavys@...>
Hello everyone, i am interested for working with the technical team of SPDX. The GSoC project ' I want to begin contributing towards the project, could you guide me to begin making some good contributions to SPDX and the project. I have joined the general and technical mailing list. Thanks Bhavy On 2019-03-01 20:07, Manbeck, Jack via Lists.Spdx.Org wrote:
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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [spdx] Newcomer introduction
Manbeck, Jack
Just echoing what Jilayne said. If you can give us an idea of where your interest lie participation wise, after reading about the work groups on the site, we can guide you. Or feel free to ask questions about them.
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From: spdx@... [mailto:spdx@...] On Behalf Of J Lovejoy Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 11:09 PM To: SPDX-general Cc: bhavys@... Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [spdx] Newcomer introduction Hi Bhavy, Welcome! I have just approved your message, as it appears you have not joined the mailing list. Can you please do so? We actually have 4 mailing lists - this general one and one for each sub-team: tech, legal, and outreach. I’m not sure which is appropriate for you, but there is a description of each and how to join here: https://spdx.org/participate. Thanks, Jilayne SPDX legal co-lead On Feb 26, 2019, at 10:42 AM, bhavys@... wrote: |
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Re: Newcomer introduction
J Lovejoy
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Welcome! I have just approved your message, as it appears you have not joined the mailing list. Can you please do so? We actually have 4 mailing lists - this general one and one for each sub-team: tech, legal, and outreach. I’m not sure which is appropriate for you, but there is a description of each and how to join here: https://spdx.org/participate. Thanks, Jilayne SPDX legal co-lead On Feb 26, 2019, at 10:42 AM, bhavys@... wrote: |
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Newcomer introduction
bhavys@...
Hello everyone,
I got to know about Spdx from a friend and I found the organisation's idea of merging multiple licences into one file for easy utility very interesting. I would like to contribute to the organisation and have already opened minor PRs on github of spdx. Could you guide me where to begin. Thanks Bhavy |
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Seeking public comments for the OpenChain Specification version 2.0
Mark Gisi
We are seeking public comments for the next version of OpenChain Specification.
For those new to the OpenChain Specification - The OpenChain project developed a specification that defines a core set of requirements that a high quality Open Source Compliance program is expected to satisfy. Although specification provides a minimum set of “must have” requirements, a great deal of flexibility is given on how an organization can implement them.
We have recently completed the last round of feedback from the OpenChain community and the spec draft is now being circulated more broadly for public comments which concludes on March 22nd. The current draft is available at: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/openchainspec-2.0.draft.pdf past readers of the spec might find the marked up version useful: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/_media/openchain/OpenChainSpec-2.0.draft.MarkUp.pdf A high level summary of the changes made over the current version (1.2) can be found on page 3.
You can send feedback via: · the Mailing list: Openchain-specification@...; · the issues wiki: https://github.com/OpenChain-Project/Specification/issues; or · replying to me directly if you wish to remain anonymous (mark.gisi@...)
To obtain a better understanding of the goals and the context in which the Specification was developed before providing feedback, you can review the following FAQ list: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/specification-questions-and-answers
We look forward to your feedback.
best, Mark
Mark Gisi | Wind River | Director, IP & Open Source Tel (510) 749-2016 | Fax (510) 749-4552
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Re: SPDX Feb General Meeting Minutes
Phil Odence
Thanks for the updates.
From: "spdx@..." <spdx@...> on behalf of "kstewart@..." <kstewart@...>
Hi Phil, I've gone in and updated the tech section to put links into some of the items we discussed and added details of Asia SPDX tech call. Please let me know if you want me to revert.
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]· Tools · Applying to participate in GSoC for 2019 · Variety of proposals on Wiki: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/GSOC/GSOC_ProjectIdeas · We’ll hear back end of Feb 26 if we are selected. · tools-golang · Steve Winslow has contributed new Go libraries to SPDX to support generating SPDX documents see: https://github.com/spdx/tools-golang · He also created a tool to scan the kernel looking for SPDXIDs that Kate used for her talk at LCA to get latest status of the Kernel. · Go Steve! · Specification · Discussing Mark Atwood's Idea for alternative name spaces for companies licenses that are not open source. · Spec can handle via "LicenseRef-" · What guidance do we provide? · Unblocking contributions to 2.2 · Kate is working with Thomas to unblock contributions to 2.2 (switch master over to 2.2 from 2.1.1) · We will be starting to take pull requests into 2.2 spec, for features approved, please assign issue to yourself if you want to write up the feature. · Focus for next few months · Started a tech call in Asia friendly time · Call will be on 2nd Tuesday of each month 10am Japan/12pm Australia (and 5pm PST Monday) on https://www.uberconference.com/SPDXTeam · First topic will be SPDX-lite discussion that's started in the OpenChain workgroup.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:02 AM Phil Odence <phil.odence@...> wrote:
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Re: SPDX Feb General Meeting Minutes
Kate Stewart
Hi Phil, I've gone in and updated the tech section to put links into some of the items we discussed and added details of Asia SPDX tech call. Please let me know if you want me to revert. Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]
Thanks, Kate On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:02 AM Phil Odence <phil.odence@...> wrote:
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