A new poll has been created: The U.S. Copyright Office considers some works uncopyrightable "because they contain an insufficient amount of authorship", e.g. "words and short phrases ... titles ... na

Hi all, I’m sending this to both the legal and general mailing lists to ensure greatest visibility. The legal team has come up with a final draft of the license inclusion guidelines based on various c

Hi all, The SPDX legal team has its regular bi-weekly call tomorrow, Thursday at noon, Eastern Daylight Savings time (note: The US moved our clocks forward, but I believe the UK and Europe has yet to

Hello all, Following from Jilayne's email earlier this month, the legal team has now finalized and posted the update to the license inclusion principles for the SPDX License List. The updated principl

We’ll be pleased to welcome “professor-turned-technocrat” Allan Friedman, the Director of Cybersecurity at NTIA. He is at the center of NTIA’s effort to standard a software BOM and an SPDX fan. This i

A great meeting with great attendance. Please volunteer or suggest a guest speaker for next time. Anything SPDX related is fair game. https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2020-04-02 Gene

What: The Linux Foundation will be moving wiki.spdx.org to new infrastructure When: Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 19:00 to 20:00 UTC Why: Improving capacity and reliability of underlying infrastructure Imp

Hi Kate and other SPDX folk, We have been using Zoom to provide teleconference for SPDX meetings. In light of recent events, Zoom has gotten very popular, and also been failing many security audits, a

Hi all, The SPDX 2.2 specification is now in the final 2 week public review window. The SPDX tech-list participants have been working on polishing it for the last couple of months and adding in the ou

https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2020-05-07 General Meeting/Minutes/2020-05-07 < General Meeting‎ | Minutes · Attendance: 19 · Lead by Phil Odence · Minutes of April meeting Contents

Hello SPDX community, This is a follow-up from discussions on several of the SPDX general meetings and workgroup calls over the past couple of months. The TL;DR version is: The main static pages for t

One thing that remains normal in the world is the SPDX General Meeting. This month Kate Stewart will be reviewing what’s new in the just-buttoned-up 2.2 release. GENERAL MEETING Meeting Time: Thurs, M

Hi! I’ve started looking at the license and the SPDX identifiers on the “bzip2” project. The license looks like a unsurprising BSD variant, but weirdly it’s been getting a versioned license ID with ea

I’m on it! SDPX Team! We have a proposal in from the OpenChain Japan Licensing Information Exchange Work Group. Please see the suggested addition below. Shane

Looping our SPDX friends into the thread so they can check this out. :O

The SPDX Work Group needs your help to host on-line tools. As you may know, SPDX runs on shoestring with support from the Linux Foundation but no corporate contributions. There are benefits to the ind

https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2020-08-06 General Meeting/Minutes/2020-08-06 < General Meeting‎ | Minutes · Attendance: 14 · Lead by Phil Odence · Minutes of Aug meeting Contents [

According to the wiki page, the General Meeting call is the first Thursday of the month and meets on Uberconference: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting Is this still correct, or is there (for

Special Presentation by Tanjong Agbor Smith, one of our Google Summer of Code students Here’s how Tanjong describes himself and his work: I am Tanjong Agbor smith, enrolled in a Masters degree in Comp

Thanks to Paul for hosting in my absence. https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2020-09-03 Best, Phil L. Philip Odence General Manager, Black Duck Audit Business Synopsys Software Integri