Technical Team/Minutes/2020-06-09

June 9, 2020

Attendees

Topics: Rex/John update on 2.2.1 GSoC SPDX Tools

Update from Rex
- 6 remaining issues
  - Will be covered in a follow-up call with Kate. Any remaining issues will be brought to the group for next week
- Question on formatting for the headings and the links
  - Jack, Kate, Thomas, Rex and John will discuss offline

Meta issue #386 is tracking all the license profile related issues
Consolidating issues for license profile issue #385
- Collection of fields for license
Do we need a distributed license?
- Both Jilayne and Steve believe that concluded license can be used
  - This was the original intent of concluded license
- Thomas expressed an interest in clearly declaring a non-disjunctive license at the point of distribution
  - Different distributed licenses may be chosen for different customers
- Documentation currently doesn’t capture the disjunctive choice scenario for concluded license
- Concluded is currently used for both adding a reviewed conclusion on the license data and for the choice of disjunctive licenses
- Vicky recommended that since the tool creators are requesting it, that should weigh in to the decision.
- Brad suggested teasing apart the document creator and the artifact creator when defining distributed license
  - Kate agrees that clarity around roles is going to be needed
General support for moving to 2 fields for every artifact DeclaredLicense and ConcludedLicense
Use of the DistributedLicense needs more discussion
- Description of use cases for DistributedLicense
- Updated documentation for ConcludedLicense to include disjunctive choice
- Documentation on Artifact