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April 4, 2019

Attendees

• Kate Stewart
• Gary O'Neall
• Mark Atwood
• Rohit Lodha
• Steve Winslow
• Jack Manbeck
• Krys Nuvadga
• Philippe Ombredanne

GSoC

• Several proposals submitted and being reviewed
• Need to merge ideas 4.1 and 4.2 since 4.1 is not significant enough
• Need to process the pull requests for the Python libraries

Namespaces

• Agree to standard order DNS – agree with Alexios comment
• Need to add Pull Request to add flat namespaces
• Should also accept DNS names in the namespace registry – but need to consider the DNS names are “owned” by the DNS owner – maybe a checkbox
• Link to licenses – would be a web accessible repository of SPDX documents describing the licenses (optional)
• contrib, contrib.spdx.org – relate to a local repository – policy decision
• library to support local repository of XML documents -
• XML or JSON – or SPDX document – URL to SPDX document, XML
• XML external reference links
• Reviewed name space syntax issues
  • Philippe has concerns on the readability, but agreed we could move forward with the proposal
  • Identified the specification needs to be updated since license text will not be in the document for LicenseRef-[namespaces]
• issue #113 updated based on discussion: https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/issues/113
• Gary will update the project ideas based on today’s discussion
• A pull request will be created to update the spec for 2.2