Difference between revisions of "General Meeting/Minutes/2017-12-07"

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• Attendance: 15
• Lead by Gary O'Neall
• Minutes of Nov meeting approved

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 ahd 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
• Rob Musial
• Jeff Luszcz, Flexera
• Dennis Clark, NexB
• Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor
• Alexios Zavras, Intel
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Scott Lammons, FreeBSD
• Mathew Crawford, ARM