https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Legal_Team%2FMinutes%2F2019-10-17 2026-05-07T13:02:58Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.23.13 https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=Legal_Team/Minutes/2019-10-17&diff=4800&oldid=prev 2020-03-29T14:03:32Z

<p>Created page with &quot;2019-10-17 == Attendees == * Alan Tse * Jilayne Lovejoy * Jim Vitrano * John Horan * Mike Dolan * Paul Madick * Steve Winslow == Minutes == Steve will run the release proce...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>2019-10-17<br /> <br /> == Attendees ==<br /> * Alan Tse<br /> * Jilayne Lovejoy<br /> * Jim Vitrano<br /> * John Horan<br /> * Mike Dolan<br /> * Paul Madick<br /> * Steve Winslow<br /> <br /> == Minutes ==<br /> <br /> Steve will run the release process for 3.7 to go live shortly.<br /> <br /> Most of the discussion focused on the ongoing considerations for updating the license inclusion guidelines, including discussion of the following:<br /> * must be stable text – is there an exception?<br /> * if OSI approved, it gets added to the list<br /> * if not open source-ish, at least needs to be source available – and other factors will apply more strongly<br /> * if not OSI-approved or FSF-libre, or one of the others – if the license does not, then it MUST be source-available and other factors will be weighed more heavily<br /> ** philosophical reason: if OSI, FSF, etc. approved it, then they’ve already gone through a process to know who the steward is, etc.<br /> ** if not OSI etc., then go back with questions such as: who is steward? do they commit to stable and versioned license texts? will they engage with the process?<br /> ** drive-by submissions with no engagement, we close the issue</div>

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