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<p>Created page with &quot;March 19, 2019 == Attendees == * Kate Stewart * Gary O&#039;Neall * Matthew Crawford * Jack Manbeck * Philippe Ombredanne ==Update from LF Leadership Summit== * Discussed license...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>March 19, 2019<br /> == Attendees ==<br /> * Kate Stewart<br /> * Gary O'Neall<br /> * Matthew Crawford<br /> * Jack Manbeck<br /> * Philippe Ombredanne<br /> <br /> ==Update from LF Leadership Summit==<br /> * Discussed license namespace and repository proposals<br /> ** Agreed to divide the problem into separate namespaces and repositories<br /> ** 3 use cases:<br /> *** “Private” namespace for license ID’s used within the same company<br /> *** “Public” namespaces for external repositories of open source licenses which may eventually move into the listed licenses<br /> *** “NonOSS” ability to create license references for licenses that do not meet the criteria for open source licenses and may never be added to the SPDX license list<br /> ** Proposal from leadership summit was to allow 2 namespaces<br /> *** A DNS based namespace which must have a DNS registered domain name behind it. These namespaces would not need to be registered in any repository (but could be)<br /> *** A free format namespace that would need to be registered someplace to avoid name collisions<br /> ** Syntax for the namespaces were proposed to be:<br /> *** ‘LicenseRef-.[dns-style] where [dns-style] is the naming convention proposed by Mark Atwood<br /> *** ‘LicenseRef—[freeformat] where [freeformat] is text that complies with the LicenseRef syntax<br /> ** Discussion on the syntax<br /> *** General displeasure was expressed on the syntax (confusing, prone to typos)<br /> *** Current constraints on the naming led to this proposal<br /> **** Ability to easily determine if the license ref refers to a namespace and be able to determine which type of namespace it is<br /> **** Parseable by the current tools for LicenseRef (e.g. comply with the syntax for LicenseRef’s specified in the 2.1 spec)<br /> ** Alternative syntaxes were discussed<br /> *** No constraint on the text – if the text isn’t a listed license, it would be considered a namespace<br /> *** Instead of LicenseRef-, preceed the namespaces by something else unique (e.g. ‘@’).<br /> *** Use something other than a . or – after the LicenseRef (e.g. LicenseRef-DNSName-[dns-style])<br /> * Discussed the Repository options<br /> ** Do we need anyting complex? Can we just have people drop their namespaces into a git repo?<br /> *** Legal team expressed concern about licenses matching licenses on the license list being added and duplicated. This would require some checks and automation to solve efficiently.<br /> ** Kate will follow-up with Mark Atwood to get the written proposal so that we can discuss further next week.<br /> ==SPDX 2.1.1==<br /> * Jack demonstrated the progress he has made on the PDF document generation<br /> * Remaining issues include internal links not working and no table of contents<br /> * Suggestions were made to resolve the issues during the call<br /> * Jack will incorporate the suggestions continue to make progress on the PDF<br /> <br /> [[Category:Technical|Minutes]]<br /> [[Category:Minutes]]</div>

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