Technical Team/Minutes/2012-08-14

Minutes 8/14/2012

Attendees:

• ·         Gary O’Neall
• ·         Bill Schineller
• ·         Brandon Robinson
• ·         Kate Steward
• ·         Kirsten Newcomer
• ·         Michael Herzog
• ·         Jack Manbeck
• ·         Marshall Clow
• ·         Ed Warnicke
• ·         Ibrahim Haddad
• ·         Peter Williams

Agenda:

• ·         1.1
• ·         Legal update on Spdx Lite
• ·         2.0 Use Cases

Legal Update on Spdx Lite:

• ·         Can’t use the word “Lite”
• ·         See the minutes from SPDX legal: <a href="http://spdx.org/content/legal-team-meeting-minutes-2012-07-25">http://spdx.org/content/legal-team-meeting-minutes-2012-07-25</a>
• ·         Legal recognizes and supports use cases where license information for work in progress can be captured.
• ·         A follow-up action in the legal team to review the required fields.
• ·         Propose a follow-up discussion with both legal and technical team on Tuesday – Kate will follow-up.

1.1:

• ·         Disconnect in how license references are added to extracted licensing information (Bug #1058)
  • o   Agreed to use ExtractedLicensingInfo and add “seeAlso” property
  • o   Gary will add seeAlso to ExtractingeLicensingInfo and check to see if there is any impact to the spreadsheet
• ·         Agreed to add the RDF for the License (bug #1037)
• ·         Agree to make the file name as optional (bug #1061)
  • o   Update spec
  • o   Update rdf cardinality
  • o   Update tools
• ·         Propose to leave sort order alone for license list (bug #1053) – Peter already updated the bug to wont fix.
• ·         Peter will update the RDF this week
• ·         All: should review appendix 4
• ·         Swap Appendix 3 and Appendix 4 – Kate
• ·         Kate will do another pass this Thursday

2.0 Use Cases:

• ·         Yocto use case reviewed
  • o   The use case covers both the tools and the built image
  • o   Patches create an interesting dimension to the use case