SPDX Oct General Meeting Minutes
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2019-10-03
General Meeting/Minutes/2019-10-03
< General Meeting | Minutes
· Attendance: 10
· Lead by Kate Stewart
· Minutes of Sept. meeting approved
Contents
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· 3 Outreach Team Report - Jack
Legal Team – Steve
· Working on the next release – 3.7
· Looking for volunteers to put together the XML and test files
· Targeting next week
· Small release
· Trend – licenses that don’t strictly follow the open source definition (e.g. source available but some proprietary restrictions)
· Discussion on whether these should be included and update the license inclusion principles – more information available at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/925
· Looking to make a decision early in the 3.8 release
Tech Team Report - Kate
· SPDX Lite
· Changes are added as a pull request and will likely be accepted soon
· Security fields to be added in 2.2
· Working with Uday on a Google Doc which will be turned into a pull request
· Coordinating with Todo group and others
· Looking at adjusting the minimum required fields to allow for security use cases without all the licensing
· General support for reducing the number of mandatory fields
· Steve will bring to the legal team the discussion on removing the of the mandatory legal related fields
· GSoC – completed, all students passed
· SPDX Tool updates which include the GSoC contributions are all checked in
· Plan to update the spdxtools website within the next 2 weeks
· Amazon will start using the namespace features soon
· Request to add specification for the namespace
· Mark agreed and will create a pull request
· The license ID web page can also be updated
Outreach Team Report - Jack
· Survey
· Working on summarizing the survey results
Cross Functional
· Several compliance and SPDX related talks planned for the Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon at the end of the month
Attendees
· Steve Winslow, LF
· Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
· Jack Manbeck, TI
· Mark Atwood, Amazon
· Paul Madick, Dimension Data
· Nisha Kumar, VMWare
· Rose Judge, VMWare
· Matija Šuklje
· William Bartholomew, Github
· Dave McLoghlin, Rogue Wave