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‎Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

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* Attendance: 10
* Lead by Phil Odence
* Minutes of July meeting approved

== Guest Presentation - Rohit ==

* Studying computer science in India
** Working with SPDX for a number of months
** Great experience in learning about how open source works
** And, was surprised to learn about license issues
* Project- On line SPDX tools
** move existing tools to web interfaces
** started with simple UI
*** and, of course, used open source
*** java and python
*** needed a java VM
*** finally found a project that worked for him
* Three tools
** Validation tool
** Converter tool
** Comparison tool
* Vailidation Tool
** Very simple UI
** Basically just upload a file
** Returns result of SPDX compatibility errors
** Works for both tag value and RDF
* Comparison Tool
** takes two file inputs (for comparison)
** after files uploaded, they go through validation
** If so, they are compared
** output is Excel sheet, saved on the server, user gets download link
* Conversion Tool
** conversions between format types
** user selects type of conversion
** returns required format
*** similar to spreadsheet, stored on server with download link
* Next steps
** creating API so other applications can call
** benefit is that java tool prereqs don’t need to be called
* Rohit went through a very short demo but will set up a more detailed one with the Tech Team

== Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary ==

* Spec
** Got through all of the topics in the Google Doc
** Making good progress
* 2.2 v 3.0 discussion
** Still open to input on burning use cases that aren’t covered
** Please feel free to provide input
* Tooling
** most of the focus has been on GSoC
*** everyone is making great progress
*** evaluation last week and everyone passed!
** Progress on Python libraries
** Helping legal team with tooling

== Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul ==

* Uptick in activity on XML review
** Brad and Alexios have been great
** This has been a longstanding need, so great to see progress
* Discussion about Linus’ note on Linux and GPL
** Will be added to license list
* On the plate now: Lots of chatter on email list about implications of adding “+” operator
** background
*** used to have two different licenses to handle “only” and “or later”
*** now using an operator
*** left “GPL only”
** It’s created some problems
*** current meaning of GPL-2
*** problems with standard header
** reached a conclusion about how to handle going forward
** Best option
*** deprecate plus operator
*** go back to two different licenses
**** doesn’t really apply to other licenses anyway
**** we believe, but still open for discussion
** big topic on legal call today
* License comparison tool, web-based
** https://certification.openchainproject.org/spdxweb/
*** URL could change
* API thought from Phil
** Assuming we publish APIs for hosted tools, we will need to specify terms of use.

== Outreach Team Report - Jack ==

* Jack unavailable. His email input:
** Update from my side is that we are still working on fleshing out and documenting the program tools that can scan licenses and generate/read spdx documents.
** Kate- Also talking about how to come up with a test suite for tools to make sure tools correctly read/generate SPDX

== Attendees ==

* Phil Odence, Black Duck
* Rohit Lodha, Google Summer of Code
* Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
* Uday Shankar, Black Duck
* Alexios Zavras, Intel
* Matija Suklje, FSFE
* Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
* Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard
* Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
* Michael Herzog- nexB

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 ** Got through all of the topics in the Google Doc
 ** Making good progress
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 ** Still open to input on burning use cases that aren’t covered
 ** Please feel free to provide input
 * Tooling
 ** most of the focus has been on GSoC
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 ** Progress on Python libraries
 ** Helping legal team with tooling
 == Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul ==

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Podence: /* Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary */

Podence at 00:35, 4 August 2017

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