Minutes from July SPDX General Meeting
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2019-07-11
General Meeting/Minutes/2019-07-11
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· Attendance: 14
· Lead by Phil Odence
· Minutes of June meeting approved
Contents
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· 1 Special Presentations - Xavier Figouoa/ Philip Ekong Obie, GSoC
· 2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
· 3 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul/Steve
· 4 Outreach Team Report - Kate
Special Presentations - Xavier Figouoa/ Philip Ekong Obie, GSoC[edit]
· Python Library- Adding support for more formats
· Generating SPDX docs from IDs in code
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]
· Spec
· All known issues are addressed in 2.2
· Under discussion:
· Idea of a short format for copyrights ala license IDs from FSFE
· Would be added as an appendix (like license IDs)
· Could use a joint tech/legal teams call
· Exploring branching strategy
· Pared down version, defining minimal subset (from Japan work group)
· Still SPDX compliant as it will utilize mandatory fields
· Part of the spec
· Important to communicate that; it’s not a fork
· Tools
· GSoC
· 8 projects total (a record)
· Great progress, all passed first evaluations
· Flurry of tooling work with the new license list
· Better matching/copyright matching
· License format improvements
Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul/Steve[edit]
· License List
· 3.6 version went live yesterday
· 10 new licenses and exceptions
· Other mark up and doc updates
· Attention now turning to 3.7
· Other topics of discussion already covered.
· Namespace Project
· Need to make clear the difference between LL and NS registry
· NS is an option for rejected licenses
· Could be a stop before being accepted
Outreach Team Report - Kate[edit]
· Shane has readied the survey
· Based on input from Phil, Jack, Kate, Gary
· Will go do the General Meeting mailing list
Cross Functional -[edit]
· Will designate one Tech Call per month to include Legal Team
· Third one of the month
· Starting next week
Attendees[edit]
· Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
· Jilayne Lovejoy, Canonical
· Steve Winslow, LF
· Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
· Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
· Philippe Ombrédanne- nexB
· Alexios Zavras, Intel
· Michael Herzog- nexB
· David Ryan
· Dave McLaughlin, Rogue Wave
· Paul Madick, Dimension Data
· Mark Atwood, Amazon
· Xavier Figouoa
· Philip Ekong Obie