SPDX Sept General Meeting Minutes
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2018-10-04
General Meeting/Minutes/2018-10-04
< General Meeting | Minutes
· Attendance: 8
· Lead by Phil Odence
· Minutes of Sept meeting approved
Contents
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· 1 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
· 2 Legal Team Report - Jilayne
· 3 Outreach Team Report - Jack
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]
· Spec
· Focus on multiple formats
· How do deal with XML, JSON, YAML
· Proposal to link to software heritage identifies
· SW heritage- presentation came out recently on how code should be ID’ed in repos
· Seems to make sense to extend references to point to
· General agreement on last tech call
· Tooling
· Got integrated on line tools up
· License submittal
· XML editor
· Beta quality, ready to go. http://spdxtools.sourceauditor.com
· GSOC has worked very well
· Should thank Google
· Post on Website
· Could use some social media
· Topic for Outreach
· May want to point projects to FSF software reuse site which advocates SPDX
· Would be a good credibility builder
· The link is on the site, but not easy to find
· Other Groups
· NTIA- Government group defining a BoM standard
· Prototype work in health care
· Fingers crossed that they will use SPDX
· SWID
· Active discussion
· Mapping fields between SPDX an SW
· Other groups may be able to use our use cases
· They are wrestling with what is a components
· Also, how a company can keep their own supplementary license list
· Can do via a SPDX doc that is just licenses and make external reference to
· Steve W will help out
Legal Team Report - Jilayne[edit]
· New license backlog
· Trying to clear out for next release
· Looking forward to new tooling
· Could use testing help
· Need some Python help on the tools
· Mostly fixing up formatting stuff
Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]
· Little activity
· Regrouping
Attendees[edit]
· Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
· Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
· Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
· Matthew Crawford, ARM
· Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
· Jack Manbeck, TI
· Steve Winslow, LF
· Mark Atwood, Amazon