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<p>The Legal Team meets every other Wednesday at 8am Pacific Time US / 11am Eastern Time US time during the same weeks as the General Meeting. &nbsp;If you have any questions, email Jilayne Lovejoy at:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:jlovejoy@openlogic.com">jlovejoy@openlogic.com</a></p><ul><li>You can sign up for the <a href="http://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal">mailing list here</a></li><li>The next Legal Team meeting will be on Wednesday, April 18, 2012.</li></ul><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Current issues/topics (this is a general list and may not touch upon everything) -- <em>updated April 6</em></strong></span></p><p></p><p class="p1"><b>1) License addition process</b></p><p></p><p>A)&nbsp;Legal team has taken this back over from business team; see Adam Cohn's email summarizing current proposal - To be discussed on next legal call 4/18</p><p></p><p class="p2"><b>2) Formatting and "master list" for License List (i.e. actual license text files)</b></p><p></p><p class="p2">Currently the "master" consists of spreadsheet with list + individual .txt files for license text field = downloadable zip file.&nbsp; This is then converted into html pages for website.&nbsp; Peter, Gary, and Jilayne have had initial discussion on this issue; to be discussed further with more fleshed out proposal</p><p></p><p>A)&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="s1">PROPOSAL</span></span>:&nbsp; License text files formatted in HTML instead of .txt files as default; can convert from there into text file with tool if people want that too;&nbsp;</p><ol class="ol1"><li>Option to use HTML to indicate some of matching rules?</li></ol><p>B)&nbsp;For back-end management of License List overall: proposal to use Bugzilla and GIT repository in background for management &nbsp;- easier tracking of changes and gets it off Jilayne's desktop<br /><br /></p><ol class="ol1"></ol><p></p><p class="p1"><b>3) Other administrative to-dos&nbsp;</b></p><p></p><p>A) Add licenses to list or other updates ("DONE" indicates completed for v1.15; rest some will be done for v1.16)</p><ol class="ol1"><ol class="ol1"><li class="li2">Add FreeBSD - DONE</li><li class="li2">Add NetBSD licenses&nbsp; - DONE</li><li class="li2">Add 4-clause UC BSD license - DONE</li><li class="li2">Add CDDL v1.1 - DONE</li><li class="li2">AGPL full name is "v3" not "v3.0" like everything else (short identifier is correct) - DONE</li><li class="li2">PHP license issue (see email) - DONE</li><li class="li2">Add MPL 2.0 other header version (for time being to be consistent with GPL)</li><li class="li2">finish license text review of .txt files - still some to do</li><li class="li2">add US Gov't works - add short identifier to list; see email from David Wheeler</li><li class="li2">proposal to add some kind of short identifier for copyright notice only (and "all rights reserved"?" - Fedora has this, maybe adopt what they use?</li></ol></ol><ol class="ol1"></ol><p>B)&nbsp;Other to-dos</p><ol class="ol1"></ol><p></p><ol class="ol1"><ul class="ul1"><li class="li2">update License List fields protocol on website</li></ul></ol><p></p><p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p><p>C)&nbsp;Other issues (some to be discussed over next legal calls upcoming)</p><ol class="ol1"></ol><p></p><ol class="ol1"><li class="li2">GPL exceptions - we don't have them all, list some of the others and variations on text - can someone do some research on this issue?</li><li class="li2">eCos is really a GPL header with an exception... (see bigger issue above)</li><li class="li2">Lucent Public License - naming issues - see notes in spreadsheet</li><li class="li2">Sugar CRM license - see notes in spreadsheet</li><li class="li2">Propose short identifier for copyright notice only "all rights reserved"</li><li class="li2">OSI issues - waiting on them</li><li class="li2">FSF license list match-up - licenses that need to be added?</li><ul class="ul1"><li class="li2">JL has done initial pass - needs further research</li></ul><li class="li2">Fedora license list reach-out via email (he won't be at LF Collab Summit)</li><ul class="ul1"><li class="li2">JL has begun discussion with Tom Calloway</li></ul></ol><p></p><p><em><br /></em></p>