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Re: Proposed spec for external packages

Philippe Ombredanne
 

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Yev Bronshteyn
<ybronshteyn@...> wrote:
Here is the spec for the proposed EternalPackage element. While I touch on
usage in the beginning, I'll discuss some specific use cases in the context
of SpdxTools on the call.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfArS8_xR_CQ_5plOOMtj1y9ps5M-gXFjofUBXR8hyE/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfArS8_xR_CQ_5plOOMtj1y9ps5M-gXFjofUBXR8hyE/edit?usp=sharing
Yev:
I guess you meant External and not Eternal....

I provided a few comments to your proposed spec in the doc at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfArS8_xR_CQ_5plOOMtj1y9ps5M-gXFjofUBXR8hyE/edit#

The gist of my feedback:
- SWID tags are a nice concept but look to me at best new and may be
emerging, and at worst an unknown quantity fraught with many issues:
- no open neutral registry (like a IANA);
- little or no known usage in the FOSS world and no known usage by
any Linux distro as far as I know;
- a de-jure standard backed primarily by commercial entities for
commercial licensing compliance, with a closed and pay-walled-garden
called tagvault.org;
- little general adoption that I could find beyond a few commercial
vendors of asset management tools and a few (albeit large) commercial
software vendors like Microsoft;
- and yet another new standard on top of another standard: based on
the NIST discussion draft you provided the ambition of SWID tags seems
to be a rehash on top CPEs.

- Why limit the purpose to security? identification has a rather
general purpose.

- Why limit an external id to CPE and SWID tags? There are several
other sources of (rather widely used) globally unique ID:
- Linux distros package name/version
- other package managers name/version such as npm, rubygems, pypi, maven, etc
- repo or project names on hosting sites such as Github, Google Code
(RIP), Apache, Eclipse, Sourceforge and several others.

All these should be supported and are IMHO far better and more widely
used that SWID tags. Hence my suggestion for something more inclusive
and generic.

An interesting question is how you map these to one another: for
instance what is the corresponding Debian package for a Fedora RPM?
What would be the common id for the upstream of these two packages?
What is the corresponding CPE if any?

--
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne
Re: Proposed spec for external packages

Kate Stewart
 

Hi Yev,
    The spec you linked to was the one I created for las week's call.
Is there a different document we should be refering to?

Thanks, Kate

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Yev Bronshteyn <ybronshteyn@...> wrote:
Here is the spec for the proposed EternalPackage element. While I touch on usage in the beginning, I'll discuss some specific use cases in the context of SpdxTools on the call.


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Proposed spec for external packages

Yev Bronshteyn
 

Here is the spec for the proposed EternalPackage element. While I touch on usage in the beginning, I'll discuss some specific use cases in the context of SpdxTools on the call.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfArS8_xR_CQ_5plOOMtj1y9ps5M-gXFjofUBXR8hyE/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfArS8_xR_CQ_5plOOMtj1y9ps5M-gXFjofUBXR8hyE/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks!
SPDX 2.0 Bakeoff at Linux Con NA - August 17 9am - Virginia Room

kate.stewart@...
 

Hi,
    We're now less than on month away from LinuxCon, and we wanted to get some information out for those who want to participate in the SPDX 2.0 Bakeoff.  If you can make it to Seattle that’s fantastic -- we look forward to meeting you or re-connecting!  If you can’t make it in person that’s OK -- you may still upload your SPDX files.   

A folder has been setup to share SPDX files for the SPDX Bakeoff workgroup session scheduled for Monday morning August 17, 2015.    We’ll be meeting in Virginia Room (located on the 4th floor, Union St side of hotel) from 9:00am - 1:00pm.

In order to facilitate the analysis and discussion we are asking everyone who has tools that generate SPDX to at least generate an SPDX file (tag-value format) for Time v1.7 (a small package for the purpose of comparing SPDX output from different tools), cpio 2.10 and spdx-tools v 2.0 .   

Please use the links to the source packages in the table below so that we are comparing “apples to apples.”   Then simply create a folder with the name of your organization and just drop the SPDX files in there.    If you have any questions or problems email spdx-tech@....   

Also please fill out our sign-up form to let us know what additional topics you would like to see covered in this session.

SPDX files to be compared:



Simple SPDX Document Creation
SPDX Document Creation with
Internal Relationships
SPDX Document Creation with
External Relationships
Packages

Notes
This is the same package we used for the SPDX 1.1 bake-off.  It is a small package and should be reasonably straight forward.  Deprecated fields should not be used.
This is a package has a bit more files to it and there are different file types and relationships internal to the package.
This is a Maven project with external dependencies listed in the project POM.  Don’t pay too much attention to the SPDX file in the git repository - it is a 1.2 version and does not include all of the dependencies.


Reference Information:


Instructions:  

  1. Create a folder for your tool in “SPDX 2.0 Bake-Off” folder.    
    1. see example “doSoCs (UNO)”
    2. please remember to make sure that it is readable.
  2. Create a copy of the template for the tools’ environment context  and put into your tool’s folder.
  3. Add the SPDX files generated for the reference examples into your tool’s folder.
  4. Ideally, please consider run the SPDX files through the verification tool (aka translator) indicate if not run.  The verification tool can be downloaded from https://github.com/spdx/tools/releases/download/V2.0.2/spdx-tools-2.0.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar.  Verification can be run executing the downloaded jar file with the command “verify” with a single parameter of the SPDX file (e.g. java -jar spdx-tools-2.0.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar myspdxfile.spdx). 
  5. If you have any questions,  feel free to email spdx-tech@... and we’ll try to help.

Thanks,
Jack, Gary & Kate

SPDX General Meeting Minutes

Philip Odence
 


Thanks again to Gary and the UNO team for the interesting presentation.


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Black Duck Software, Inc.
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General Meeting/Minutes/2015-07-02

  • Attendance: 15
  • Lead by Phil Odence
  • Minutes of May meeting approved

UNO - Matt Germonprez[edit]

  • Tools
    • DoSOCS - evolved from Yacto tool
      • Generalized to create ways of generating SPDX docs from various dev processes
      • Resulted DoSOCS- Ways to scan packages and repos (now source, but in theory binary) to generate SPDX
        • Main use case is generating SPDX 2.0 docs
        • Store in a relational database - trick was mapping obj-oriented SPDX to rel database
        • Very generic. Even on the back end; developed with FOSSology, but could plug in commercial scanners
        • Future- intake of SPDX
        • Idea is that this will eventually pull in all tools Git, Yacto, etc
        • And, can be tied into Jenkins
        • Ultimately will support an enterprise process to maintain a inventory of SPDX docs that come out of their processes
      • Also exploring production of security vulnerability info
        • Looking for where vulnerability info could be stored.
        • Need a spot for CPE (and other common ID standards)
        • Which would allow for vulnerability info
        • Tech team has been pursuing this idea
        • Group needs to address the mission creep issue
    • Git Scanner
      • Analyzes branch and contributes SPDX doc
    • Eclipse Plug In


Tech Team Report - Kate & Gary[edit]

  • Proposal for wording on Snippets 
    • Up as a Googledoc and available for review
  • Also one for None/No Assertion
  • Some discussion of best practices as well
    • Looking for folks to sign up on the wiki page to write up parts
  • Kicked of discussion Bake Off and what examples to use
  • BillS writing up proposal for including external component identifiers (GAV, CPE, others)
    • General agreement with concept
  • Tools
    • Discussion has been going for a couple months about mapping/reconciling various sources of tools (SPDX group, UNO)
    • Bakeoff at LinuxCon NA (Monday, 8-noon)
      • Will have 2-3 examples
        • Candidates are examples on best practices page
      • Tool providers will provide SPDX docs 
      • Should learn a lot from comparisons

Legal Team Report - Paul[edit]

  • Putting together rev License List (2.1) including exceptions
    • Lots of new exceptions
  • Mark Gisi is leading exploration of standard headers


Biz Team Report - Jack[edit]

  • Working on new guidance pages
    • Phil and Jack have been prototyping
  • LinuxCon
    • Back off Monday
    • Aiming for BoF on Tuesday
    • SPDX talk from Gary (Tues am)
    • Mark will be giving a more general talk that will relate to SPDX (Tues pm)


Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]

  • Continually looking for presenters for General Meeting


Attendees[edit]

  • Phil Odence, Black Duck
  • Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
  • Mark Gisi, Wind River
  • Scott Sterling, Palamida
  • Gary O’Neill, SourceA
  • Kate Stewart, LF
  • Hassib Khanafer, Protecode
  • Paul Maddick, HP
  • Scott Lamons
  • Jack Manbeck, TI
  • Matt Germonprez, UNO
  • Tom Gurney, UNO
  • Uday Shankar, UNO
  • Michael H- nexB
  • Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
UNO SPDX Project Repositories

Matt Germonprez <germonprez@...>
 

Hi everyone, 

Thanks for the chance to discuss the UNO SPDX tools at the General Meeting. Here are the links to the GH repositories for projects that are currently active: 

DoSOCS: 

GitScanner:

Eclipse Plugin:

Feel free to contact us with any questions. 

Regards,
Matt

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College of Information Science & Technology 
University of Nebraska Omaha
Re: SPDX General Meeting Thursday

Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah.foster@...>
 

Hi,

I would love to hear about SPDX 2 integrated into yocto or Open Embedded if someone has done that.

Regards,

Jeremiah

On Jul 1, 2015 2:09 PM, "Philip Odence" <podence@...> wrote:

I’m trying to spice up every General Meeting with a speaker talking about a special topic, usually their organizations’ use of SPDX or work related to. If you have any ideas for future presentations, PLEASE contact me. I assure you that even the simplest adoption story if of great interest. 

This month, Matt Germonprez will provide an update on the Univ of Nebraska/Omaha’s work with SPDX.


GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, July 2, 8am PDT / 10 am CDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:
Conference code:  7812589502
Toll-free dial-in number (U.S. and Canada):  (877) 435-0230
International dial-in number: (253) 336-6732
For those dialing in from other regions, a list of toll free numbers can be found: https://www.intercallonline.com/portlets/scheduling/viewNumbers/viewNumber.do?ownerNumber=6053870&audioType=RP&viewGa=false&ga=OFF

 
Administrative Agenda
Attendance

Presentation – Matt

Technical Team Report - Kate


Legal Team Report - Jilayne


Business Team Report – Jack


Cross Functional Issues – Phil

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SPDX General Meeting Thursday

Philip Odence
 

I’m trying to spice up every General Meeting with a speaker talking about a special topic, usually their organizations’ use of SPDX or work related to. If you have any ideas for future presentations, PLEASE contact me. I assure you that even the simplest adoption story if of great interest. 

This month, Matt Germonprez will provide an update on the Univ of Nebraska/Omaha’s work with SPDX.


GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, July 2, 8am PDT / 10 am CDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:
Conference code:  7812589502
Toll-free dial-in number (U.S. and Canada):  (877) 435-0230
International dial-in number: (253) 336-6732
For those dialing in from other regions, a list of toll free numbers can be found: https://www.intercallonline.com/portlets/scheduling/viewNumbers/viewNumber.do?ownerNumber=6053870&audioType=RP&viewGa=false&ga=OFF

 
Administrative Agenda
Attendance

Presentation – Matt

Technical Team Report - Kate


Legal Team Report - Jilayne


Business Team Report – Jack


Cross Functional Issues – Phil
Re: Zero Clause BSD (0BSD)

J Lovejoy
 

Hi Rob,

Thanks for you email. To request a new license be added to the SPDX License List, you need to provide the info listed on this page (most of which you already have) http://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license and send it to the SPDX-Legal mailing list. If you are not a member there, you can join the legal mailing list here: http://spdx.org/participate/legal-team

Thanks!

Jilayne
SPDX Legal Team co-lead

On Jun 12, 2015, at 1:01 PM, Rob Landley <rob@...> wrote:

I'm told I should contact you about registering Toybox's "zero clause
bsd" license for an official 0BSD acronym/abbreviation.

The license text itself (paragraphs 2 and 3 here):

https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/LICENSE

Is 2 clause BSD with the removal of half a sentence:


https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/ee86b1d8e25cb0ca9d418b33eb0dc5e7716ddc1e

This simplification makes the license function as a public domain
license (such as unlicense.org or creative commons zero), specifically
it means that combining works from multiple sources allows the license
text to collapse together, so you don't wind up with nonsense such as
Android's dozens of concatenated license copies for toolbox:

https://github.com/android/platform_system_core/blob/master/toolbox/NOTICE

(I asked why they had multiple copies of _identical_ license text, and
they said the copyright dates had changed so a strict reading of the
"copy exactly" part of the license meant... Don't laugh, the
"about->license" pulldown in the kindle paperwhite has over _300_pages_
of this nonsense. It's a chronic issue with bsd-alikes.)

So yeah, zero clause BSD. In toybox. Is there a form I should fill out?

Rob
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Zero Clause BSD (0BSD)

Rob Landley <rob@...>
 

I'm told I should contact you about registering Toybox's "zero clause
bsd" license for an official 0BSD acronym/abbreviation.

The license text itself (paragraphs 2 and 3 here):

https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/LICENSE

Is 2 clause BSD with the removal of half a sentence:


https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/ee86b1d8e25cb0ca9d418b33eb0dc5e7716ddc1e

This simplification makes the license function as a public domain
license (such as unlicense.org or creative commons zero), specifically
it means that combining works from multiple sources allows the license
text to collapse together, so you don't wind up with nonsense such as
Android's dozens of concatenated license copies for toolbox:

https://github.com/android/platform_system_core/blob/master/toolbox/NOTICE

(I asked why they had multiple copies of _identical_ license text, and
they said the copyright dates had changed so a strict reading of the
"copy exactly" part of the license meant... Don't laugh, the
"about->license" pulldown in the kindle paperwhite has over _300_pages_
of this nonsense. It's a chronic issue with bsd-alikes.)

So yeah, zero clause BSD. In toybox. Is there a form I should fill out?

Rob
Re: Exclusion of NONE and NOASSERTION from ABNF

Mark Gisi
 

Hi Terin,

On the surface the following appears to be syntactically convenient:
license-expression = 1*1(simple-expression / compound-expression / "NONE" / "NOASSERTION")

but semantically incorrect. Let me try to explain using a database data field analogy.

NONE and NOASSERTION are defined at the SPDX document field level and even have different semantic values with respect to different fields. SPDX fields can have several different types assigned which is analogous to a database field. For example, a database field may contain values of *type* Character, Integer, Float, Boolean, Date and so forth. A database field can also contain the special value NULL, which does not belong to a specific data type, but instead represents a special field value (NULL = missing unknown data). NONE and NOASSERTION are analogous to NULL, where a license expression is analogous to a type such as Character, Integer, Float, Boolean, Date and so forth.

A license expression represents the licensing terms of a piece of software (source or binary). In less precise terms, it represents the distribution obligations for a software component. NONE and NOASSERTION do not semantically represent that. To include NONE and NOASSERTION as validate license expressions is analogous to adding NULL to a database type which would be semantically awkward.

In summary, on the surface the following appear syntactically convenient:
license-expression = 1*1(simple-expression / compound-expression / "NONE" / "NOASSERTION")

But semantically it is not correct, and therefore, NONE or NOASSERTION should not be included in the ABNF definition for a license expression.

At least that is one perspective.

Best,
- Mark

Mark Gisi | Wind River | Director, IP & Open Source
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-----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Terin Stock
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 9:21 AM
To: Kate Stewart
Cc: spdx@...
Subject: Re: Exclusion of NONE and NOASSERTION from ABNF

Kate:

I'm unsure of any use case where you would want to mix NONE or NOASSERTION with either simple-expression or compound-expression in the same package. You may however want to use these strings when packaging code that has no license or where you are unsure of the license.

In ABNF speak was thinking more along the lines of

license-expression = 1*1(simple-expression / compound-expression / "NONE" / "NOASSERTION")
--
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Kate Stewart <kstewart@...> wrote:
Hi Terin,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Terin Stock <terinjokes@...> wrote:

The ABNF in Appendix IV of the 2.0 version of the specification
allows for short form identifiers, LicenseRef values or combinations
to form a license-expression. However the values "NONE" and
"NOASSERTION" are not valid in a license expression, despite their
useful and defined meaning in the specification.

There are tools that validate their license fields using a
license-expression (two such tools being the package managers npm and
composer, in JavaScript and PHP, respectfully), making the values
"NONE" and "NOASSERTION" invalid.

Are these two values excluded from the ABNF on purpose?

Can you give us a real life use case where either "NONE" or "NOASSERTION"
should be used in combination with other licenses?

If there's a compelling use case as to why it should be allowed, that
can't be expressed another way, we can certainly revisit adding it to
the specification if the folk on the legal team agree.

Thanks, Kate
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Re: Exclusion of NONE and NOASSERTION from ABNF

Kate Stewart
 

Hi Terin

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Terin Stock <terinjokes@...> wrote:
Kate:

I'm unsure of any use case where you would want to mix NONE or
NOASSERTION with either simple-expression or compound-expression in
the same package.

Neither could we.  :-)
 
You may however want to use these strings when
packaging code that has no license or where you are unsure of the
license.

In ABNF speak was thinking more along the lines of

license-expression = 1*1(simple-expression / compound-expression /
"NONE" / "NOASSERTION")

Ah yes, that should be considered. 

Right now when NONE or NOASSERTION are permitted, they are associated
with the actual fields in the specification (ie. LicenseConcluded, etc.) , but this 
may be a more elegant way to express it.   Will need to take a pass through all
the other fields using them and see if there are any snags.

The next tech call on the 16th is a joint call with the legal team where we
plan on talking about the NONE/NOASSERTION language.   It probably makes
sense to consider this, as well at that time.    Please feel free to join in to the 
call if you'd like. 

Thanks for raising this.

Kate
 
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Kate Stewart
<kstewart@...> wrote:
> Hi Terin,
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Terin Stock <terinjokes@...> wrote:
>>
>> The ABNF in Appendix IV of the 2.0 version of the specification allows for
>> short form identifiers, LicenseRef values or combinations to form a
>> license-expression. However the values "NONE" and "NOASSERTION" are not
>> valid in a license expression, despite their useful and defined meaning in
>> the specification.
>>
>> There are tools that validate their license fields using a
>> license-expression (two such tools being the package managers npm and
>> composer, in JavaScript and PHP, respectfully), making the values "NONE" and
>> "NOASSERTION" invalid.
>>
>> Are these two values excluded from the ABNF on purpose?
>
>
> Can you give us a real life use case where either "NONE" or "NOASSERTION"
> should be used in combination with other licenses?
>
> If there's a compelling use case as to why it should be allowed, that can't
> be expressed another way, we can certainly revisit adding it to the
> specification if the folk on the legal team agree.
>
> Thanks,  Kate
>
Re: Exclusion of NONE and NOASSERTION from ABNF

Terin Stock <terinjokes@...>
 

Kate:

I'm unsure of any use case where you would want to mix NONE or
NOASSERTION with either simple-expression or compound-expression in
the same package. You may however want to use these strings when
packaging code that has no license or where you are unsure of the
license.

In ABNF speak was thinking more along the lines of

license-expression = 1*1(simple-expression / compound-expression /
"NONE" / "NOASSERTION")
--
#Terin Stock


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Kate Stewart
<kstewart@...> wrote:
Hi Terin,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Terin Stock <terinjokes@...> wrote:

The ABNF in Appendix IV of the 2.0 version of the specification allows for
short form identifiers, LicenseRef values or combinations to form a
license-expression. However the values "NONE" and "NOASSERTION" are not
valid in a license expression, despite their useful and defined meaning in
the specification.

There are tools that validate their license fields using a
license-expression (two such tools being the package managers npm and
composer, in JavaScript and PHP, respectfully), making the values "NONE" and
"NOASSERTION" invalid.

Are these two values excluded from the ABNF on purpose?

Can you give us a real life use case where either "NONE" or "NOASSERTION"
should be used in combination with other licenses?

If there's a compelling use case as to why it should be allowed, that can't
be expressed another way, we can certainly revisit adding it to the
specification if the folk on the legal team agree.

Thanks, Kate
Re: Exclusion of NONE and NOASSERTION from ABNF

Kate Stewart
 

Hi Terin,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Terin Stock <terinjokes@...> wrote:
The ABNF in Appendix IV of the 2.0 version of the specification allows for short form identifiers, LicenseRef values or combinations to form a license-expression. However the values "NONE" and "NOASSERTION" are not valid in a license expression, despite their useful and defined meaning in the specification.

There are tools that validate their license fields using a license-expression (two such tools being the package managers npm and composer, in JavaScript and PHP, respectfully), making the values "NONE" and "NOASSERTION" invalid.

Are these two values excluded from the ABNF on purpose?

Can you give us a real life use case where either "NONE" or "NOASSERTION" should be used in combination with other licenses?   

If there's a compelling use case as to why it should be allowed, that can't be expressed another way, we can certainly revisit adding it to the specification if the folk on the legal team agree. 
 
Thanks,  Kate
Exclusion of NONE and NOASSERTION from ABNF

Terin Stock <terinjokes@...>
 

The ABNF in Appendix IV of the 2.0 version of the specification allows for short form identifiers, LicenseRef values or combinations to form a license-expression. However the values "NONE" and "NOASSERTION" are not valid in a license expression, despite their useful and defined meaning in the specification.

There are tools that validate their license fields using a license-expression (two such tools being the package managers npm and composer, in JavaScript and PHP, respectfully), making the values "NONE" and "NOASSERTION" invalid.

Are these two values excluded from the ABNF on purpose?

--
Terin Stock
Thursday SPDX General Meeting with Special Presentation

Philip Odence
 

This should be a good one! In addition to the standard agenda, Gary O’Neall start us off speaking about some interesting SPDX happenings in the Javascript and Ruby communities:
Progress with SPDX in the JS and Ruby Communities has led to some new contributions in tools which makes it easier for developers of open source software to use the SPDX license list. Gary will talk about a new JSON format for the license list contributed by the communities. The NPM/NodeJS and RubyGems communities have adopted SPDX short names and the license expression language. They are putting tooling in place to check for and allow use of our license information.

GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, June 4, 8am PDT / 10 am CDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:
Conference code:  7812589502
Toll-free dial-in number (U.S. and Canada):  (877) 435-0230
International dial-in number: (253) 336-6732
For those dialing in from other regions, a list of toll free numbers can be found: https://www.intercallonline.com/portlets/scheduling/viewNumbers/viewNumber.do?ownerNumber=6053870&audioType=RP&viewGa=false&ga=OFF

 
Administrative Agenda
Attendance

Presentation – Gary

Technical Team Report - Kate


Legal Team Report - Jilayne


Business Team Report – Jack


Cross Functional Issues – Phil
May SPDX General Meeting Minutes

Philip Odence
 

First, SPDX 2.0 has been released and is available on the website. A press release should be doing out very soon, if not today. As soon as that happens Jack will post a blog with a link to the release. Congrats and thanks to all who contributed to both the specification and the new release of the license list.


Best,
Phil

L. Philip Odence
General Manager Audit Services
Vice President of Corporate and Business Development
Black Duck Software, Inc.
8 New England Executive Park, Suite 211, Burlington MA 01803
Phone: 781.810.1819, Mobile: 781.258.9502
Skype: philip.odence




General Meeting/Minutes/2015-05-07

  • Attendance: 9
  • Lead by Phil Odence
  • Minutes of April meeting approved


Tech Team Report - Kate[edit]

  • 2.0 spec is out after some last minute tweaks
  • Already some ideas for next rev
  • Next foci
    • License classified as None and No Assertion
      • Needs coordination with the Legal Team, targeting Tech Team meeting on May 26
    • Snippets
    • Requirements of other communities
    • Apache tooling
  • Recent requests for on line tools
    • MikeD looking at facilities for running hosted tools on site
    • Need a java appserver

Legal Team Report - Jilayne[edit]

  • Working on consistency in None and No Assertion language
  • Post 2.0- A number of issues pushed out waiting for 2.0
    • Updated priorities page on the Wiki 
    • Starting to get people signed up to drive
    • Topics
      • Standard Headers, some issues that have arisen with new expression language approach
      • “Composite licenses” on list and how to handle
      • Cadence of versions, targeting quarterly


Biz Team Report - Jack[edit]

  • New version an associated materials up on site
    • Press release going out today
    • Blog from Phil and linking to press release
  • Linuxcon- mid August
    • Plugfest
    • 2.0 talk
  • Could really use examples, best practices
  • Biz team putting together a straw man for vision for messaging and collateral
    • Will dedicate a meeting to the discussion
    • Targeting revamping site to include/revlews before Linux


Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]

  • Future Presentations for General Meeting
    • TI
    • UNO
    • Would love to get other companies to share
      • GitHub? Gary pursuing next week
      • Samsung, Windriver?
      • Malcolm Bates, attorney in Barcelona running a local interest group
      • Possibly record


Attendees[edit]

  • Phil Odence, Black Duck
  • Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
  • Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
  • Mark Gisi, Wind River
  • Jack Manbeck, TI
  • Scott Sterling, Palamida
  • Gary O’Neill, SourceA
  • Kate Stewart, Linaro
  • Hassib Khanafer, Protecode
Thurs, SPDX General Meeting Reminder

Philip Odence
 

This should be a brief one. My aim has been to line up special topics or guest speakers for General Meetings, but I’ve not lined up one for this month. Please let me know if you would be willing to provide a 15 minute overview of what your organization is doing with SPDX. And/or if you know of another company that might have a good story to tell, please let me know.
Best,
Phil



GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, May7, 8am PDT / 10 am CDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:
Conference code:  7812589502
Toll-free dial-in number (U.S. and Canada):  (877) 435-0230
International dial-in number: (253) 336-6732
For those dialing in from other regions, a list of toll free numbers can be found: https://www.intercallonline.com/portlets/scheduling/viewNumbers/viewNumber.do?ownerNumber=6053870&audioType=RP&viewGa=false&ga=OFF

 
Administrative Agenda
Attendance

Technical Team Report - Kate


Legal Team Report - Jilayne


Business Team Report – Jack


Cross Functional Issues – Phil
SPDX April General Meeting Minutes

Philip Odence
 




General Meeting/Minutes/2015-04-02

  • Attendance: 10
  • Lead by Jilayne


Biz Team Report - Jack[edit]

  • Working with Linux Foundation to get press release for 2.0 together; need to come up with better way to represent increase in number of licenses in a meaningful way
    • timing for press release: perhaps around ApacheCon, which is in two weeks. Jack to check with Jennifer
  • Google Summer of Code - no spots for Linux Foundation due to Google rotating foundations instead of annual representation. Some other LF projects are doing fund-raising to pay for interns.
  • Starting next call: think about and plan some re-vamping of spdx.org website; have some ideas, but want to get it going so that it’s more interactive or by roles. 

Legal Team Report - Jilayne[edit]

  • 2.0 is live now and Git repository is tagged!
  • No legal call today, next call on April 16 - will discuss what’s up next after 2.0, priorities and projects to tackle for rest of 2015

Tech Team Report - Kate[edit]

  • Re: License expression syntax - some discrepancy - Mark to look at
  • Comments cleaned out of spec now for most part, a few have moved to Bugzilla
  • Jilayne to look through templates section
  • Review window for 2.0 is mostly over and as soon as last issue is resolved, will have check-point at next tech team call on Tuesday 
  • Once published, Jack to update website
  • update from Gary on tools: He’s doing some unit tests and hope to have something on the website in a week or so. The tools will be "beta quality" and any volunteers to help test would be greatly appreciated. I'll send out an email once I have the tools posted.


Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]

  • Mike from LF: may be some funding that could be put towards compliance related help for the community. One idea: for various build tools out there, are there things that can be done to make SPDX output easier? If so, what needs to be done, where to apply resources, etc. to help drive SPDX adoption at build time. 
    • Kate’s thoughts were maybe Android (and ecosystem, working with AOSP), Debian (in order to go into Ubuntu eco-system)
    • need: maybe 2 interns with mentor, then planning for long-term ownership?? more discussions needed
  • Had a call with Github re: SPDX License List adoption of full names and short identifiers, etc. and how they might leverage license list for their work. More coming hopefully
  • Future Presentations for General Meeting:
    • TI would be happy to after Collab - Jack is working on it and will follow-up with Phil
    • General call out to keep an ear out for people to present


Attendees[edit]

  • Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
  • Hassib Khanafer, Protecode
  • Michael Herzog, NexB
  • Pierre, NexB
  • Jack Manbeck, TI
  • Bill Schillner, B
  • Scott Sterling, Palamida
  • Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
  • Paul Madick, HP
  • Kate Stewart, Linaro
SPDX General Meeting Reminder

Philip Odence
 

First, I am happy to announce that Gary O’Neall is joining the SPDX Core Team. Gary has been heavily involved in leading SPDX from the outset. Although his focus has been on tools, he has made great contributions across the board to our efforts. Gary has agreed to join Kate as co-lead of the Tech Team. And, he will continue to be Gary the Tool Man. 

I have a conflict with tomorrow’s meeting. Jilayne has kindly volunteered to host in my absence.


GENERAL MEETING

Meeting Time: Thurs, April2, 8am PDT / 10 am CDT / 11am EDT / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Conf call dial-in:
Conference code:  7812589502
Toll-free dial-in number (U.S. and Canada):  (877) 435-0230
International dial-in number: (253) 336-6732
For those dialing in from other regions, a list of toll free numbers can be found: https://www.intercallonline.com/portlets/scheduling/viewNumbers/viewNumber.do?ownerNumber=6053870&audioType=RP&viewGa=false&ga=OFF

 
Administrative Agenda
Attendance

Technical Team Report - Kate


Legal Team Report - Jilayne


Business Team Report – Jack


Cross Functional Issues – Jilayne
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