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== Tech Team Report - Kate and Gary == | == Tech Team Report - Kate and Gary == | ||
* SPDX proposals for 2.2 and 3.0 versions of the spec are now in github | * SPDX proposals for 2.2 and 3.0 versions of the spec are now in github | ||
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* Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard | * Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard | ||
* Pedro Giffuni, FreeBSD | * Pedro Giffuni, FreeBSD | ||
| − | * | + | * Robert Musial, Progressive |
* Jeff Luszcz, Flexera | * Jeff Luszcz, Flexera | ||
* Dennis Clark, NexB | * Dennis Clark, NexB | ||
* Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor | * Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor | ||
| − | * Alexios Zavras | + | * Alexios Zavras, Intel |
* Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM | * Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM | ||
* Scott Lammons, FreeBSD | * Scott Lammons, FreeBSD | ||
Latest revision as of 18:53, 24 January 2018
- Attendance: 15
- Lead by Gary O'Neall
- Minutes of Nov meeting approved
Contents
Guest Speaker - Pedro Giffuni - FreeBSD
- Overview and history of FreeBSD
- Licensing - several variations of licenses, difficult to keep track
- Mostly free of copyleft (exceptions tools like gcc)
- Mix of BSD styles, MIT, ISC
- SPDX helps solve some of the issues with non-uniform licenses
- SPDX helps describe licenses when sharing code with other projects
- Used WindRiver service to do initial identifications
- Identified licenses needed manual review - not all of the license matches were precise
- Breakdown of the licenses found was provided
- Pedro has been adding the SPDX tags
- Currently, only tagged C files and headers
- Build files and documentation still need to be tagged
- Just adding tag, not removing the licenses
- Discussion on the advantages / disadvantages of keeping the license
- Most important aspect is to add the SPDX ID for easy identification
- Question on tagging some of the non-core files
- Other projects are outside the tree and not currently tagged - they are maintained by other groups
Tech Team Report - Kate and Gary
- SPDX proposals for 2.2 and 3.0 versions of the spec are now in github
- Some discussion on extending the license expression to include an ambiguous operator
- Some discussion on various tooling effort including the tools presented by Thomas in Prague
- Most tooling efforts have been focused on supporting the legal team move to the license XML format
- Kate and Philippe provided an update on the use of license ID's in the Linux Kernel
- All files now have detectable licenses!
- LWN has an article describing the effort: https://lwn.net/Articles/739183/
- Philippe presented at the Paris Open Source summit
Outreach Team Report - Jack
- Moving to new wordpress website
- Encouraged everyone to take a look at the site (note: you will need access to sign in)
- Target to move in December, but it may end up being January
Legal Team Report - Jilayne
- Closed the GPL identifier issue requested by the FSF
- The updated solution was accepted by FSF and Richard Stallman
- We are now in "feature freeze" for the next release
- We should hold off on opening up or discussing larger issues not related to the next release
- Effort should be focused on resolving remaining issues in the github repository
Attendees
- Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
- Philippe Ombredanne, NexB
- Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard
- Pedro Giffuni, FreeBSD
- Robert Musial, Progressive
- Jeff Luszcz, Flexera
- Dennis Clark, NexB
- Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor
- Alexios Zavras, Intel
- Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
- Scott Lammons, FreeBSD
- Mathew Crawford, ARM
