Difference between revisions of "General Meeting/Minutes/2017-08-03"

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Studying computer science in India
- Working with SPDX for a number of months
- Great experience in learning about how open source works
- And, was surprised to learn about license issues
Project- On line SPDX tools
- move existing tools to web interfaces
- started with simple UI
  - and, of course, used open source
  - java and python
  - needed a java VM
  - finally found a project that worked for him
Three tools
- Validation tool
- Converter tool
- Comparison tool
Vailidation Tool
- Very simple UI
- Basically just upload a file
- Returns result of SPDX compatibility errors
- Works for both tag value and RDF
Comparison Tool
- takes two file inputs (for comparison)
- after files uploaded, they go through validation
- If so, they are compared
- output is Excel sheet, saved on the server, user gets download link
Conversion Tool
- conversions between format types
- user selects type of conversion
- returns required format
  - similar to spreadsheet, stored on server with download link
Next steps
- creating API so other applications can call
- benefit is that java tool prereqs don’t need to be called
Rohit went through a very short demo but will set up a more detailed one with the Tech Team

Spec
- Got through all of the topics in the Google Doc
- Making good progress
2.2 v 3.0 discussion
- Still open to input on burning use cases that aren’t covered
- Please feel free to provide input
- SPEC URL- https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec
Tooling
- most of the focus has been on GSoC
  - everyone is making great progress
  - evaluation last week and everyone passed!
- Progress on Python libraries
- Helping legal team with tooling

Uptick in activity on XML review
- Brad and Alexios have been great
- This has been a longstanding need, so great to see progress
Discussion about Linus’ note on Linux and GPL
- Will be added to license list
On the plate now: Lots of chatter on email list about implications of adding “+” operator
- background
  - used to have two different licenses to handle “only” and “or later”
  - now using an operator
  - left “GPL only”
- It’s created some problems
  - current meaning of GPL-2
  - problems with standard header
- reached a conclusion about how to handle going forward
- Best option
  - deprecate plus operator
  - go back to two different licenses
    - doesn’t really apply to other licenses anyway
    - we believe, but still open for discussion
- big topic on legal call today
License comparison tool, web-based
- https://certification.openchainproject.org/spdxweb/
  - URL could change
API thought from Phil
- Assuming we publish APIs for hosted tools, we will need to specify terms of use.

Jack unavailable. His email input:
- Update from my side is that we are still working on fleshing out and documenting the program tools that can scan licenses and generate/read spdx documents.
- Kate- Also talking about how to come up with a test suite for tools to make sure tools correctly read/generate SPDX

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 == Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary ==
-* Spec  https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec
+* Spec
 ** Got through all of the topics in the Google Doc
 ** Making good progress
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 ** Still open to input on burning use cases that aren’t covered
 ** Please feel free to provide input
+** SPEC URL- https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec
 * Tooling
 ** most of the focus has been on GSoC
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 ** Progress on Python libraries
 ** Helping legal team with tooling
 == Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul ==