Technical Team/Minutes/2014-10-22

October 21, 2014

Attendees

• Gary O'Neall
• Bill Schineller
• Kate Stewart
• Mark Gisi
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Scott Sterling
• Jack Manbeck

Agenda

• License Expression Language
• File Tagging
• Schedule Update

License Expression Language

• Mark will email Kate the word doc with the current proposal
• Kate will upload to a Google doc. for sharing

File Tagging

• Reviewed Jack's proposal
• Agreed to the text for Jack's proposal
• Proposal to use the tags for more than just the license ID
  • Would imply a format that makes it easy to translate (e.g. SPDX.[tag]:)
  • Agreed not to change the tag name from SPDX-License-Id since it is already in use
  • In the future, we could extend and perhaps use SPDX- as the prefix
• Agreed to update the source files for the SPDX tools with the tags
  • Kate will do a pull request
• How to delimit the license ID's?
  • Parens are no longer required in the license expression
  • Also a problem in the tag/value
  • Several proposals
    • Use end of line to terminate
    • Use parenthesis to expressions beyond the single license IDs
    • Use <text> </text> tags
    • Use the end of comment
• Add suggestion to declare a string variable with the tag/value pair to include in the binaries
  • Some concern we may want to hold off for now
  • Agree to hold off for one week - will discuss next week

Schedule Update

• November 14th: SPDX 2.0 Draft (RC1) Complete, distributed for internal review/comment (committees)
• December 1 - deadline for feedback
• Dec 1-17: incorporate feedback
• Dec 18: SPDX 2.0 Specification Release Candidate (RC2) For Tool Implementation (Public Review via general mailing list)
• Dec 19th: Tool Implementation Kickoff
• Jan 15: SPDX 2.0 Specification Release Candidate (RC3) - Updates from Tool Impl Feedback
• February 18-20, 2015: Linux Collab Summit, SPDX 2.0 Tools Bakeoff
  • compare SPDX 2.0 output of different tools for compatibility/consistency
  • supply chain example. Upstream SPDX consumed by downstream SPDX.