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General Meeting/Minutes/2016-12-01

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• Attendance: 11
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of Nov meeting approved

Contents [hide] 

• 1 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
• 2 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul
• 3 Outreach Team Report - Jack
• 4 Cross Functional Topics - Phil
• 5 Attendees

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]

• Spec
  • Has been focusing on coding up best practices for creating a Notices file
    • Will need some input from the Legal Team, probably a joint meeting
    • Output will be pseudo-code which could be the basis for a tools (basis is sparkle queries)
  • 2.1 is out there; no current bugs reported
    • Kate gave a presentation on 2.1 in Yokahama; will get to Jack for posting on website
• Tooling
  • All upgraded to 2.1
  • No bugs reported
  • Python library being upgraded
    • Useful for implementing SPDX in a Python-based sw tool
• 2017 Goals Brainstorm
  • Tooling to make quality of licensing more visible
    • Mark G started this work
    • The idea is to grade a project, based on SPDX file, for how complete the licensing is
• Looking to get plug-ins adopted into communities
  • Apache and Eclipse
• Web based tools
  • Current java tools involve installing java environment
  • e.g. Past a license into a webpage and have it matched to an SPDX template
• Discuss pros/cons of moving to single format
  • JSON- Happy medium between tag value and RDF
• Write a git plug-in for generating SPDX docs
  • Could then grade
• Another Google Summer of Code Project

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit]

• How to leverage git hub for document maintenance
• xml work
  • Still plugging away
  • Need to assess where we are in Thursday’s call
• License list
  • No Sept release
  • Some requests have trickled in
• 2017 Goals Brainstorm
  • Big thing is getting the XML templates up
  • Getting up and running on GitHub
  • Make sure notice files work is accurate
  • Upgrading the license expressions language
  • Supportive of license match Web App

Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]

• A few meetings have been missed
• Website is up
• Outlining documentation needs
• 2017 Goals Brainstorm
  • Do a survey of companies using supply chains - understand what they are doing wrt gathering license data
    • Could use other existing groups such as Open Chain

Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]

Attendees[edit]

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
• Tarek Jamal, ARM
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Alexios Zavras, Intel
• Michael Herzog- nexB
• Philippe Ombrédanne- nexB