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General Meeting/Minutes/2017-05-04

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• Attendance: 10
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of April meeting approved 

Contents

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• 1 Guest Presentation- Philippe
• 2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
• 3 Outreach Team Report - Jack
• 4 Legal Team Report - Jilayne
• 5 Attendees

Guest Presentation- Philippe[edit]

• ScanCode
  • Open source project
  • Tool to enable developers to find the license and origin of components they are using
• Features
  • Accurate
    • Scanned Linux kernel and results were superior to two other tools that were tested
  • Handles source and binaries
  • Well tested and community maintained
  • Easy to improve license detection
• How it works
  • Input: Simple test files
  • Performs a diff against a large number of licenses and mentions
  • Handles packages via package manager.
  • Uses natural language parser for copyrights
  • Output in SPDX (or JSON)
• Two pieces ScanCode Toolkit and Code Manager
• Other projects in code.org

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]

• Restarted discussions about feature needs for next release
  • Looking at:
    • Philippe’s results
    • Debian
    • Other testing results
  • Wiki page has ideas for next release or two
    • Feel free to add there or via email
• Also looking at putting together a test suite
  • Set of packages 
  • Results to be compared
• Google SoC
  • Select three proposals
  • Students being notified about now
  • Next steps
    • Community bonding
    • Working with Students
    • Will provide status

Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]

• Working on Umbrella project
  • A wrapper around all the repositories for tools
• Discussion of a tool certification project
  • Aiming to have done in Q1 18 timeframe
  • Initial testing at LinuxCon Europe. Prague in Oct
• Call for Papers this week for NA LinuxCon, LA in August

Legal Team Report - Jilayne[edit]

• Down to 24 licenses to review
• Proposal for how to handle non-English licenses
  • Have handled some ad hoc
  • Need a broader policy
  • Will have implications for license matching guidelines

Attendees[edit]

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor 
• Philippe Ombrédanne- nexB
• Brad Edmondson, Harvard
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Robin Gandhi, UNO
• Kevin Nelson, Optum
• Dennis Clark, Palamida