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SPDX General Meeting Next Week
Philip Odence
Hoping to see many of you at LinuxCon. We have full day of SPDX on Tuesday of the event.
Meeting Time: Thurs, Sept 5, 8am PST / 10 am CST / 11am EST / 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
Approve Minutes-
Technical Team Report - Kate
Legal Team Report - Jilayne
Business Team Report – Jack/Scott
Cross Functional Issues –
Phil
Update on Yocto project- Matt Germonprez
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Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request
Tom Incorvia
Hello Phil, fine to use Micro Focus name in this context. Thanks, Tom
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Tom Incorvia; tom.incorvia@...; O: (512) 340-1336; M: (408) 499 6850 -----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Meier, Roger Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 4:14 AM To: podence@... Cc: spdx@... Subject: Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request Hi Phil REQUEST for immediate action: Please get back to me if we can include your company on the list. We are trying to wrap up the article next week, so a response in the next few days would be appreciated.Yes, we are using the license list internally at Siemens. You can add us to the list as well. All the best! Roger With best regards, Roger Meier Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Division, International Headquarters Infrastructure & Cities Sector Building Technologies Division Control Products & Systems IC BT CPS R&D ZG FW CCP Gubelstrasse 22 6300 Zug, Switzerland Tel: +41 41 724-4942 mailto:r.meier@... Important notice: This e-mail and any attachment thereof contain corporate proprietary information. If you have received it by mistake, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your system. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list Spdx@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ |
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Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request
RUFFIN MICHEL
Alcatel-Lucent is using the SPDX standard internally and we have aligned all our internal documents on FOSS (including trainings) and our Databases on the license taxonomy of SPDX. So I guess you can mention our name for license taxonomy compliance.
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A small comment on the taxonomy. We have a governance process in place since 10 years and I have now to explain to people (already trained as experts, that's around 250+ people) that what we were calling old BSD or BSD1 is now BSD4-clause and new BSD or BSD2 is now BSD3-clause. That's sometimes a bit confusing 8-). Even me I am a bit confused sometimes. So today for BSD, in document and trainings we keep the 3 way of calling the licenses I would like to point out that there is a big issue with the SPDX standard. For a given FOSS there is a top level license And there is a file level license There is no intermediate level In fact there are 3 levels for open sources Top level license of the FOSS Dependencies (FOSS which are included with the top level FOSS) File level license (not use in practice by any of our suppliers). This is something that SPDX should address Michel Michel.Ruffin@..., PhD Software Coordination Manager, N&P IS/IT Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Tel +33 (0) 6 75 25 21 94 Alcatel-Lucent International, Centre de Villarceaux Route De Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France -----Message d'origine-----
De : spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] De la part de Manbeck, Jack Envoyé : vendredi 16 août 2013 16:19 À : Meier, Roger; podence@... Cc : spdx@... Objet : RE: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request You can include Texas Instruments as well. Jack -----Original Message----- From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Meier, Roger Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 5:14 AM To: podence@... Cc: spdx@... Subject: Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request Hi Phil REQUEST for immediate action: Please get back to me if we can include your company on the list. We are trying to wrap up the article next week, so a response in the next few days would be appreciated.Yes, we are using the license list internally at Siemens. You can add us to the list as well. All the best! Roger With best regards, Roger Meier Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Division, International Headquarters Infrastructure & Cities Sector Building Technologies Division Control Products & Systems IC BT CPS R&D ZG FW CCP Gubelstrasse 22 6300 Zug, Switzerland Tel: +41 41 724-4942 mailto:r.meier@... Important notice: This e-mail and any attachment thereof contain corporate proprietary information. If you have received it by mistake, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your system. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list Spdx@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list Spdx@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx |
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Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request
Manbeck, Jack
You can include Texas Instruments as well.
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Jack -----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Meier, Roger Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 5:14 AM To: podence@... Cc: spdx@... Subject: Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request Hi Phil REQUEST for immediate action: Please get back to me if we can include your company on the list. We are trying to wrap up the article next week, so a response in the next few days would be appreciated.Yes, we are using the license list internally at Siemens. You can add us to the list as well. All the best! Roger With best regards, Roger Meier Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Division, International Headquarters Infrastructure & Cities Sector Building Technologies Division Control Products & Systems IC BT CPS R&D ZG FW CCP Gubelstrasse 22 6300 Zug, Switzerland Tel: +41 41 724-4942 mailto:r.meier@... Important notice: This e-mail and any attachment thereof contain corporate proprietary information. If you have received it by mistake, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your system. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list Spdx@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx |
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Re: SPDX General Meeting minutes and request
Meier, Roger <r.meier@...>
Hi Phil
REQUEST for immediate action: Please get back to me if we can include your company on the list. We are trying to wrap up the article next week, so a response in the next few days would be appreciated.Yes, we are using the license list internally at Siemens. You can add us to the list as well. All the best! Roger With best regards, Roger Meier Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies Division, International Headquarters Infrastructure & Cities Sector Building Technologies Division Control Products & Systems IC BT CPS R&D ZG FW CCP Gubelstrasse 22 6300 Zug, Switzerland Tel: +41 41 724-4942 mailto:r.meier@... Important notice: This e-mail and any attachment thereof contain corporate proprietary information. If you have received it by mistake, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your system. Thank you. |
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SPDX LinuxCon 2013 Schedule
Manbeck, Jack
All,
SPDX has an unofficial (meaning we are not on the regular schedule) room which will be using for meetings at LinuxCon 2013. A schedule has been posted on the SPDX web site (http://spdx.org) as a news item. We hope to see many of you there.
Best regards,
Jack Manbeck (Business Team Co-Chair)
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SPDX General Meeting minutes and request
Philip Odence
MINUTES of Aug 1 meeting:
REQUEST for immediate action:
Jilayne, Scott and I are working on a paper for law journal (IFOSSLR). In one section we are talking about the license list. We have heard anecdotally about some companies that are using the short names and list for internal purposes even if they have
not yet implemented SPDX overall. If your company is using SPDX in this way, we'd like to include the name of your company in a sentence, something along the lines of:
Please get back to me if we can include your company on the list. We are trying to wrap up the article next week, so a response in the next few days would be appreciated.
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Today's SPDX General Meeting
Philip Odence
Sorry not to get this reminder out earlier, but August just snuck up on me!
Meeting Time: Thurs, Aug 1, 8am PST / 10 am CST / 11am EST / 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
Approve Minutes-
Technical Team Report - Kate
Legal Team Report - Jilayne
Business Team Report – Jack/Scott
Cross Functional Issues –
Phil
Website Update – Jack
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Request New License: IBM PowerPC Initialization and Boot Software(ibm-pibs)
Roger Meier <roger@...>
Hi all
Based on Wolfgang Denk's question regarding the PIBS License Identifier(PowerPC Initialization and Boot Software) on the spdx general mailing list. I would like to officially request this License to be added to the SPDX License List according to http://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license 1.proposed Full Name for the license: IBM PowerPC Initialization and Boot Software 2.proposed License Short Identifier: ibm-pibs 3.Provide a functioning URL: not available 4.Create and attach license text ibm-pibs.txt (attachment) 5.OSI-approved: No 6.Short explanation regarding the need for this license to be included on the License List: This License is used within "Das U-Boot -- the Universal Boot Loader", File list: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/4xx_pci.c; h=2ca355b1347969cca6ac4b0bd355329c51dd1fc0;hb=9fab4bf4cc077c21e43941866f3f2c 196f28670d http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/4xx_uart.c ;h=1ad19abff6db2138dea7287b6eeecb840418d601;hb=9fab4bf4cc077c21e43941866f3f2 c196f28670d http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/miiphy.c;h =297155fdafa064b955e53e9832de93bfb0cfb85b;hb=9fab4bf4cc077c21e43941866f3f2c1 96f28670d Official information from IBM describing the Software Licensing Model (chapter 5): https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/BD4A044F267FE8BC87 256F820055C6CF/$file/pibs_overview.pdf U-Boot started to use a SPDX-License-Identifier per file instead of the license text, see here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/166449 Thank you! -roger |
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Re: PIBS License Identifier
Wolfgang Denk
Dear Jack,
In message <858B013A986C4F43A8A43AF62F39E5660CCEE5D7@...> you wrote: Unfortunately I cannot find any still working links to the actual PIBS software; Allt here is left is some "PIBS Overview" document at [1] which mentions that PIBS is licensed using an "IBM proprietary open source license." The best reference that is publicly online available appears to be these files [2], [3] and [4] in U-Boot which were derived from some PIBS code. [1] https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/BD4A044F267FE8BC87256F820055C6CF/$file/pibs_overview.pdf [2] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/4xx_pci.c;h=2ca355b1347969cca6ac4b0bd355329c51dd1fc0;hb=9fab4bf4cc077c21e43941866f3f2c196f28670d [3] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/4xx_uart.c;h=1ad19abff6db2138dea7287b6eeecb840418d601;hb=9fab4bf4cc077c21e43941866f3f2c196f28670d [4] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/miiphy.c;h=297155fdafa064b955e53e9832de93bfb0cfb85b;hb=9fab4bf4cc077c21e43941866f3f2c196f28670d Hope this helps. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@... The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. - Mark Twain |
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Re: PIBS License Identifier
Manbeck, Jack
Wolfgang,
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As far as I can recall they have not been looked at. Someone on the legal team who maintains the list may have a better idea. Do you have links to some of the files so we can look at them? Regards, Jack Manbeck Texas Instruments -----Original Message-----
From: spdx-bounces@... [mailto:spdx-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Denk Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:24 AM To: spdx@... Subject: PIBS License Identifier Hello, IBM has published several versions of their PIBS (PowerPC Initialization and Boot Software) boot loader source code with a license header like this: ---------- snip ---------- This source code has been made available to you by IBM on an AS-IS basis. Anyone receiving this source is licensed under IBM copyrights to use it in any way he or she deems fit, including copying it, modifying it, compiling it, and redistributing it either with or without modifications. No license under IBM patents or patent applications is to be implied by the copyright license. Any user of this software should understand that IBM cannot provide technical support for this software and will not be responsible for any consequences resulting from the use of this software. Any person who transfers this source code or any derivative work must include the IBM copyright notice, this paragraph, and the preceding two paragraphs in the transferred software. COPYRIGHT I B M CORPORATION 2002 LICENSED MATERIAL - PROGRAM PROPERTY OF I B M ---------- snip ---------- I have another version of this license text dated 1995. Has any of these been evaluated before? I can't find a SPDX License Identifier for this? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. _______________________________________________ Spdx mailing list Spdx@... https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx |
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PIBS License Identifier
Wolfgang Denk
Hello,
IBM has published several versions of their PIBS (PowerPC Initialization and Boot Software) boot loader source code with a license header like this: ---------- snip ---------- This source code has been made available to you by IBM on an AS-IS basis. Anyone receiving this source is licensed under IBM copyrights to use it in any way he or she deems fit, including copying it, modifying it, compiling it, and redistributing it either with or without modifications. No license under IBM patents or patent applications is to be implied by the copyright license. Any user of this software should understand that IBM cannot provide technical support for this software and will not be responsible for any consequences resulting from the use of this software. Any person who transfers this source code or any derivative work must include the IBM copyright notice, this paragraph, and the preceding two paragraphs in the transferred software. COPYRIGHT I B M CORPORATION 2002 LICENSED MATERIAL - PROGRAM PROPERTY OF I B M ---------- snip ---------- I have another version of this license text dated 1995. Has any of these been evaluated before? I can't find a SPDX License Identifier for this? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. |
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Re: U-Boot: short license headers using SPDX Identifier
Jilayne Lovejoy <jilayne.lovejoy@...>
YES!!!! Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for being the trail blazer :)
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We have talked about this idea quite a bit. I'm posting to the Legal Team as well, in case some are not also on the General list. Jilayne Lovejoy SPDX Legal Team | Co-lead OpenLogic, Inc. | Corporate Counsel jlovejoy@... On 7/26/13 7:20 AM, "Wolfgang Denk" <wd@...> wrote:
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Re: U-Boot: short license headers using SPDX Identifier
Wolfgang Denk
Dear Roger,
In message <045001ce89f0$e6805710$b3810530$@bufferoverflow.ch> you wrote: Thanks (again) for poinin me in this direction. I really like the idea of consistent, automatically parsable Unique License Identifiers. and a Licenses folder with a README, Exception and the Licenses:I would like to point out that this is just a "not yet"; this is still work in progress - unfortunately the conversion requires careful inspection and manual operation for a significant part of the files. But then, this just makes all the more clear how urgently such an improvement was needed. a very resourceful way to simplify the license topic and an important stepThe most interesting thing now is to watch if other projects pick up the idea... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@... Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. |
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U-Boot: short license headers using SPDX Identifier
Roger Meier <roger@...>
All
I had a discussion with U-Boot Creator and Core Developer Wolfgang Denk. He made some patches, they were accepted and the result is this header: # (C) Copyright 2000-2013 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@.... # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ and a Licenses folder with a README, Exception and the Licenses: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=Licenses;hb=HEAD see also mailing list details here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/165416 or this web site: http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Licensing It is not applied to all files of U-Boot. However, more than 5760 files already use this new header. a very resourceful way to simplify the license topic and an important step towards adoption of SPDX usage within projects and SPDX files provided with OSS releases. all the best! -roger PS: similar discussions at Apache: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-114 |
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Have a tool that supports SPDX?
Manbeck, Jack
Greetings all,
We are looking to develop a comprehensive list of tools that support SPDX on our website. If you would like to be listed please go to the tool link request page in the wiki (http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Business_Team/Tool_Link_Request ) and follow the instructions there. Feel free to contact me directly if you have further questions.
Best regards,
Jack Manbeck SPDX Web Site |
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LinuxCon schedule posted
Lamons, Scott (Open Source Program Office) <scott.lamons@...>
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america/program/schedule
Samsung is presenting a talk on SPDX Monday morning…
-Scott
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A little more on Fantec
Philip Odence
I've posted a couple of items about the Fantec case to the SPDX legal list. Adding this one and including all, because it's authored by Mark Radcliffe (counsel to OSI) and because Mark puts in nice plug for SPDX.
http://osdelivers.blackducksoftware.com/2013/07/12/fantec-critical-lessons-for-foss-compliance/
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IDs for Sun Industry Standards Source License
Camille Moulin <camille.moulin@...>
Hi all,
I'm comparing SPDX and Fossology's licenses IDs and encountered a little difficulty regarding the Sun Industry Standards Source License. The SPDX id for the version 1.1 of the license is just "SISSL", while Fossology's is "SISSL-1.1". At first glance, it seems that Fossology's choice is more consistent with SPDX's naming scheme, and I don't see the benefits of removing the version number. It also seems that there is a 1.2 version of this license (http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/Gridengine_SISSL_license.html ). So, would adding the version number to the ID be desirable / possible ? Best, Camille -- Gouvernance Open Source - Alter Way www.alterway.fr |
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SPDX General Meeting Minutes Correction
Philip Odence
Thanks to my friend Bruno Grasset for pointing out an error in my previous memo.
I had overwritten the May 2 minutes with the content of the July 3 minutes. The link I provided was to the correct content, but with the wrong title. Thanks to the Wiki's revisioning capability, I was able to retrieve the May 2 minutes as well as to properly
create the July 3 minutes:
Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
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