Legal Team/Minutes/2016-07-21

Attendees

• Kris Reeves
• Gary O"Neall
• Paul Madick
• Jilayne Lovejoy
• Dennis Clark
• Phil Odence
• Sam Ellis

Agenda

1) v2.5 is now live - send email that it's live now to general call and re-sort

2) XML files and review - what needs to be done to get to release stage:

1. finish main review of licenses so that all can merged and other clean-up (see sub-list below)
2. exceptions need to be added to XML - Kris will add to Github for review, will probably put them in own pull requests (tools don't care whether in same or different directory)
3. same situation for deprecated licenses - Gary's point that need XML for tools (Gary and Kris were going back and forth on whether own XML files needed for this or not) - to check on outcome of this
4. review various webpages for updating

• * License matching guidelines page

license list overview page; add info/explanation about XML tags

• • define a new process for License List (
  • need new tool to take text of new license and convert to XML file (to do so by hand is a bit tedious). Will still need human review before finalizing.
  • Gary to update tools for new XML format

Other notes on XML review:

• opening and closing <SPDX> tag are not always same case - should be all upper-case
• discussion on what to do about some licenses that were flagged as having self-referring numbering - will save this data even tho not complete, just in case we want to go that route later; can be an attribute that is not "seen" at this point; don't merge these yet, Kris will add attribute and merge.
• for those that are tagged as "requires acknowledgement" - reminder, don't merge, Kris to deal with those all at once
• body tag to be removed
• Kris to do another pass to do some clean-up