Thanks again to Lei from Fujitsu for an interesting presentation!

General Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03

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•         Attendance: 12

•         Lead by Phil Odence

•         Minutes of Sept meeting approved (Oct meeting was cancelled due to LinuxCon Europe)

Contents [hide] 

                        1 Special Guest - Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu

                        2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

                        3 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul

                        4 Outreach Team Report - Jack

                        5 Cross Functional Topics - Phil

                        6 Attendees

Special Guest - Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu[edit]

•         Lei

•         Working for Fujitu

•         Developing on house Distro

•         Spoke at ALS and Linux Conference about experience with SPDXX

•         Reason Fujitsu needs SPDX

•         Want an SPDX file for all their packages

•         Customers ofter require license info

•         Released under GPL3, but includes software under other license as well. Many!

•         MIT, BSD, GPL2, etc.

•         SPDX is good for this purpose

•         So they added into production Development

•         Yocto SPDX

•         Lucky for them that Yocto supports SPDX

•         But the activity on Yocto SPDX has been slow

•         Found some issues when using

•         Only supports SPDX 1.1

•         Doesn’t do a great job even with that

•         Is complex to use; takes a long time

•         May introduce license conflicts

•         In the end you can download the SPDX

•         Fujitsu’s contributions to Yocto SPDX

•         So they did some work to improve:

•         Created a patch to upgrade to SPDX 1.2

•         Unfortunately was never accepted into Yocto

•         Would like to upgrade to SPDX 2.0

•         And to improve performance

•         Has been working on some of the SPDX open source tools

•         including DoSocks developed by UNO

•         Lei has been continuing to submit improvements to Yocto

•         Improved performance

•         Currently discussing more improvements with Yocto

•         Will be continuing to improve and to upgrade to SPDX 2.1

•         Question

•         Has yocto been receptive?

•         Yocto has not been active or focused on SPDX.

•         Some people have been interested

•         Not sure why they are not interested

•         Kate will help and follow up

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]

•         Spec

•         SPDX 2.1 is now released and official

•         Starting to focus on use cases and tooling

•         last call was a joint call with the Legal Team

•         Templetazation focus

•         Agreed on interfaces between teams

•         Tooling

•         Incorporated results from the bake off

•         Overall, everyone at the bake off got good feedback, leading to improvement of all tools

•         XML Format

•         Legal Team has been working on new format for license templates

•         Makes it easier for multiple contributors

•         Working now on making it consumable for external tools

•         Really good progress

•         Should have draft standards in the next month or two.

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit]

•         Joint Call with Tech Team

•         Worked on syncing tag names to be consistent with spec

•         Went really well

•         License List

•         Business as usual with new licenses

•         More license requests for licenses in other languages

•         Probably need to have a discussion about how to handle consistently

Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]

•         Website

•         New site is up

•         Jack’s in process of posting new stuff

•         Next agenda

•         Working on new docs, templates, etc

•         Mostly to help explain aspects of how to use

•         Trying to assemble list of topics and then prioritize

•         Very open to ideas

Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]

•         Future topic - Will be a discussion of license in different languages

•         Legal Team will come forward with a strawman. A few months out.

•         Guest stars

•         Always looking for more

Attendees[edit]

•         Phil Odence, Black Duck

•         Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu

•         Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation

•         Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM

•         Yev Bronshteyn, Black Duck

•         Scott Sterling, Palamida

•         Paul Madick, Dimension Data

•         Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor

•         Tarek Jamal, ARM

•         Mark Gisi, Wind River

•         Jack Manbeck, TI

•         Alexios Zavras, Intel

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