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| − | ** | + | ** Applying to participate in GSoC for 2019 |
| − | *** Variety of proposals on Wiki | + | *** Variety of proposals on Wiki: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/GSOC/GSOC_ProjectIdeas |
| − | *** We’ll hear back end of Feb | + | *** We’ll hear back end of Feb 26 if we are selected. |
| − | ** Steve | + | ** tools-golang |
| − | *** created a tool to scan the kernel looking for | + | *** Steve Winslow has contributed new Go libraries to SPDX to support generating SPDX documents see: https://github.com/spdx/tools-golang |
| − | + | *** He also created a tool to scan the kernel looking for SPDXIDs that Kate used for her talk at LCA to get latest status of the Kernel. | |
| − | *** Go Steve | + | *** Go Steve! |
* Specification | * Specification | ||
| − | ** Discussing | + | ** Discussing Mark Atwood's Idea for alternative name spaces for companies licenses that are not open source. |
| − | *** Spec can handle | + | *** Spec can handle via "LicenseRef-" |
*** What guidance do we provide? | *** What guidance do we provide? | ||
| − | ** | + | ** Unblocking contributions to 2.2 |
| + | *** Kate is working with Thomas to unblock contributions to 2.2 (switch master over to 2.2 from 2.1.1) | ||
| + | *** We will be starting to take pull requests into 2.2 spec, for features approved, please assign issue to yourself if you want to write up the feature. | ||
*** Focus for next few months | *** Focus for next few months | ||
| − | * Started a tech call in Asia friendly | + | * Started a tech call in Asia friendly time |
| + | ** Call will be on 2nd Tuesday of each month 10am Japan/12pm Australia (and 5pm PST Monday) on https://www.uberconference.com/SPDXTeam | ||
| + | ** First topic will be SPDX-lite discussion that's started in the OpenChain workgroup. | ||
== Legal Team Report - Jilayne == | == Legal Team Report - Jilayne == | ||
Latest revision as of 17:33, 7 February 2019
- Attendance: 10
- Lead by Phil Odence
- Minutes of Jan meeting approved
Contents
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
- Tools
- Applying to participate in GSoC for 2019
- Variety of proposals on Wiki: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/GSOC/GSOC_ProjectIdeas
- We’ll hear back end of Feb 26 if we are selected.
- tools-golang
- Steve Winslow has contributed new Go libraries to SPDX to support generating SPDX documents see: https://github.com/spdx/tools-golang
- He also created a tool to scan the kernel looking for SPDXIDs that Kate used for her talk at LCA to get latest status of the Kernel.
- Go Steve!
- Applying to participate in GSoC for 2019
- Specification
- Discussing Mark Atwood's Idea for alternative name spaces for companies licenses that are not open source.
- Spec can handle via "LicenseRef-"
- What guidance do we provide?
- Unblocking contributions to 2.2
- Kate is working with Thomas to unblock contributions to 2.2 (switch master over to 2.2 from 2.1.1)
- We will be starting to take pull requests into 2.2 spec, for features approved, please assign issue to yourself if you want to write up the feature.
- Focus for next few months
- Discussing Mark Atwood's Idea for alternative name spaces for companies licenses that are not open source.
- Started a tech call in Asia friendly time
- Call will be on 2nd Tuesday of each month 10am Japan/12pm Australia (and 5pm PST Monday) on https://www.uberconference.com/SPDXTeam
- First topic will be SPDX-lite discussion that's started in the OpenChain workgroup.
Legal Team Report - Jilayne
- License List
- New process and links posted
- Published policy says advocates need to stay engaged or requests may drop off the radar
- GitHub process seems like a great way to handle requests
- Need work outside the call
- New process and links posted
Outreach Team Report - Jack
- LinuxCon Aussie Presentation
- Included Stat1/3 of files in Kernel have SPDX in them
- Great momentum
- Panel at FOSDEM on OSS Compliance tooling
- Alexios attended
- Lots or proposals on tools, so organizers turned into a panel w/ Bradley K moderating
- Theme was need for interoperatblity
- Video will be published
- Alexios also mentioned that at recent copyleft conference, SPDX came up in every talk
- Alexios attended
- Website
- Looking into status of move to Wordpress with LF
- Request a new license page has been directed to GitHub repo
- Need an Outreach reboot
Cross Functions
- Alternate name space
- Basics
- Many companies have source available non-OSS licenses
- Would be good for companies to be able to have standard local names
- Proposal is to use DNS
- Addresses issues with flat, first come first served
- DNS will be around for a long time
- Allows companies to self-assign
- Internationalized by default
- Immediately readable
- Leading dot clearly differentiates from SPDX standard names
- Challenges
- Doesn’t cary text
- Companies’ names may change through M&A and may lose domains in the process
- How to ensure that a company doesn’t change license text
- Sentiment is in favor of
- Retain “License Ref” prefix
- Standardize on place to log license data
- In a one-license SPDX doc
- Mark will mock up with one of the Amazon licenses, collaborating with Kate
- Basics
Attendees
- Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
- Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
- Mark Atwood, Amazon
- Jilayne Lovejoy
- Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
- Dennis Clark, NexB
- Alexios Zavras, Intel
- Jack Manbeck, TI
- Mark Baushke, Juniper
- David Ryan
