Hello,
First allow me to introduce myself, My name is Ahmed Hisham I am
currently a CS student at the German University in Cairo. I hope to
spend the summer working on the SPDX parser libraries project list on
the idea page at
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/gsoc-2014-spdx-projects.

I have a couple of questions about the project, regarding what version
of the spec is it expected to support.
Should it support older version than the current spec ?
Should it partially support the upcoming spec 2.0 ? If so is there a
publicly available working draft?
I say partially as the spec is expected to be release in august and by
then the summer of code will be at its end.

Best Regards,
Ahmed

• The Linux Foundation has dedicated a track to SPDX at the upcoming Linux Collaboration Summit, March 25-28. It will include introductory session for newbees as well as working sessions for the various teams. And, the Tech Team has scheduled a full day session on the 25th. Jack has posted the agenda.
• It would be great if you could take 10 mins and respond to the Future of Open Source Survey. This is an annual community effort and the result of collaboration between more than 40 organizations from the open source community. Sorry for the late notice, but the survey needs to be completed by this Wednesday.

When: Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:00 AM-12:00 PM. (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Where: Bridge info enclosed

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Forwarding to SPDX legal list for any discussion. BCC SPDX general list,
as FYI that legal list will handle.

The SPDX license list at http://spdx.org/licenses/ has an entry

Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License WTFPL

There are multiple versions of the WTFPL around, and the SPDX entry
shows the WTFPL version 2.0 text. In spirit of the SPDX naming of all
the remaining licenses, the "WTFPL" entry should be renamed to
"WTFPL-2.0".

Jilayne, Scott and I wrote an article for the I8l FOSS Law Review: 

http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/89 

I wrote a blog on the state of SPDX (and am still planning another to wrap the year…we'll see): 

http://spdx.org/news/2013-11-14/spdx...how-are-we-doing 

Hi All,

The SPDX Legal group will be holding a special break out session to review a number of software examples where the SPDX licensing syntax (i.e., license list + AND/OR operators) may not be sufficient to represent the licensing terms of the software. For instance the group will be looking at the various kinds of special exception terms, the use of the ‘+’ in license names and programs derived from multiple source and library files, where each is potentially under a different license. The group will report back to the Legal and Tech working groups with its findings. If you are interested in attending or would like to submit relevant examples send email to Mark.Gisi@....

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

Dear all,

The OMG (Object Management group) is organizing a workshop on standardizing open source governance practices on December 11 in Santa Clara (CA) http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/ca-13/special-events/FOSS.htm

 

We would like to invite the members of the SPDX group to participate. From my discussions with a lot of companies since two years on this topic, there is more and more interested parties.

 

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

 

 

 

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