Legal Team

This is the working area for the Legal Team. The SPDX Legal Team supports and provides recommendations to the SPDX working groups regarding licensing issues for the specification itself; maintains the SPDX License List; and promotes the SPDX specification to the legal community at-large.

Work and discussion is primarily done via:

• Mailing list: our traditional form of communication. Meeting reminders, minutes, updates are posted there, as well as discussion.
• SPDX License List Github repo: comments and issues and PRs related to specific changes to the files that comprise the SPDX License List, e.g., update a URL, recommend additional markup for matching purposes. In particular, new license requests are tracked here.
• Bi-weekly calls: used to discuss topics and issues that may be difficult to only discuss via email or via Github.

The Legal Team meets every other Thursday at 17:00 GMT (9:00AM PT, 10:00 MT, 11:00 CT, 12:00PM ET).

• Meeting Minutes of the Legal Team - June 2020 onward
• Meeting Minutes of the Legal Team - prior to March 2020
• Resources
• Decisions of the Legal Team - summaries of past significant decisions of the SPDX Legal Team
• Archive

Working pages for project in progress:

• Working page for policy on how to handle non-English licenses and matching