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

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

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

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

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, As has been mentioned on recent general calls, the legal team has been discussing a revision of the license inclusion guidelines off and on over the past year. We have a draft iteration that i

No guest speakers this month. And, I will be out so Kate will chair in my stead. GENERAL MEETING Meeting Time: Thurs, March 5, 8am PT / 10 am CT / 11am ET / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/world

GENERAL MEETING Meeting Time: Thurs, Feb 6, 8am PT / 10 am CT / 11am ET / 15:00 UTC. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Conf call dial-in: New dial in number: 415-881-1586 No PIN nee

Hi : We are planning to migrate to SPDX Licenses. If we are using general MIT License . Can we replace the existing license file with SPDX Identifier ? Do we need to generate new SPDX Document and pub

HI : We are using the following license which is almost same as X11 . Do we need to raise a request for new SPDX Identifier ? If so , can you let us know the process ? ********************************

If you care about open source compliance automation and if you are going to FOSDEM there is a one day hackathon and meeting taking place the day before FOSDEM on Friday January 31st as "fringe" event,

Here’s a new invite for 2020. Please accept the recurring meeting Note there will be no SPDX General Meeting in January. **** New dial in number: 415-881-1586 No PIN needed The weblink for screenshare

We are still trying to line up a presentation from one of the GSoC students who has not yet presented; that’s up in the air. I will not be able to join so one of the other Core Team members will host.

We are seeking public comments for the next version of OpenChain specification which will conclude on December 10th. For those new to the specification - The OpenChain project has developed a specific

The Nov General Meeting is moving out a week due to conflicts for most of the Core team. I also have a conflict on the 14th, so someone else will chair in my stead. Phil ***** I’m extending this recur

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 approve

Hi all, I notice that in 2.1 spec the following are marked as deprecated on the file-level: • 4.9 Artifact of Project name • 4.10 Artifact of Project Homepage • 4.11 Artifact of Projecr Uniform Resour

Hello all! 33 responses to our survey! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uhYUlCwQ59ZveqSsGC_0h1OxRLYRb1OZprfRHVNYfys/edit#responses Looking good. Shall we start sharing on social media? If we all take

Dear all, I'm working for Etalab, the mission for promoting and coordinating Open Data publications in the french public sector. The most commonly used license for french open data is the "Open Licens

Uberconference changed their platform; I’ve updated the link below. Please accept this recurring meeting. Thanks, Phil ***** I’m extending this recurring meeting to run through 2019. Please accept so