General Meeting/Minutes/2015-01-08

• Attendance: 6
• Lead by Phil Odence

• Minutes of December meeting approved

Cross Functional Issues – Phil[edit]

• Great Presentation from Bruno Grasset
• He opened and closed with thanks to everyone involved with SPDX for providing something so useful to the industry
  • Valeo
    • Supplier to Automotive Industry- Autonomous Cars, Connected Car, Intuitive Control
    • Middle of complex supply chain
  • Why they think SPDX is important
    • Industry is “likes” standards, procedures, rules
    • Have an explicit program to ensure respecting licenses and meeting obligations in all products
    • Bruno is in charge of OSS compliance
  • How they use
    • License List
      • Internal policy started with the SPDX list
      • They use the SPDX license IDs in all of their documents and databases (including promoting publicly)
      • And they check any licenses anyone supplies against our standard text
    • Document Spec
      • Prototyped use internally
      • Have been looking for hierarchy, so 2.0 is important; evaluating in 2015
  • Future Intent
    • Large OEMs (car companies) are starting to require
    • Customer requirements are making this a priority in 2015
    • Will need to require from their own suppliers
    • Integration with Yocto is critical
    • Aiming for chain of trust, based on SPDX
  • Questions
    • When you evaluated SPDX, any features beyond hierarchy that they require?
      • Not yet mature enough to completely evaluate
    • How did you hear of? How can we promote?
      • LinuxCon Europe session- Bruno came then promoted internally. 
      • He expects that in his space that SPDX will catch on quickly because of car makers requirements
    • SPDX and Yocto- Is there only interest in Yocto integration or more general integration?
      • Broader interest in integrating into process

General Status - Phil[edit]

• On track for 2.0 release at CollabSummit
• Jack has been working hard to get a good agenda together
• We will be sharing a room with OpenChain so that folks can participate in both
• Looking forward to seeing everyone

Attendees[edit]

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
• Matt Germonprez, UNO
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Gary O’Neill, SourceA
• Bruno Grasset, Valeo