Technical Team/Minutes/2011-01-11

SPDX Technical Call
1/11/2011

Attendees:
Bill Schineller
Gary O'Neall
Peter Williams
Kate Stewart
Ann Thornton

Agenda:
 - Infrastructure status
 - Differentiation a judgment from a fact
 - Model for representing a judgment
 - DEP 5

Infrastructure status:
 - Git up and running for both SPDX spec and pretty printer
 - Bugzilla up and running

Request to integrate SPDX mailing list with Bugzilla
 Some concern about keeping too much of the comments in Bugzilla if replies to email are added to the 
bugs - will pick discussion after we find out if the David can set this up (Peter already sent in the 
request)
 Should have the default cc on the Bugzilla notifications be the SPDX mailing list

Discussion on posting information to the larger SPDX distribution list
 Bill will send meeting announcements to the larger general distribution list

Differentiating judgment from fact
 - discussion (not all details not captured)
 - agree that when something is stated in a file, it is a fact the file contains that statement
 - discussion on whether conclusions from various stated licenses are also facts or judgments
 - different interpretation what the file level license represents - the declared license or the inferred 
license
 - agree file level would distinguish inferred, and detected license
 - add a reason to the inferred license.  Proposal is that this is either an entry from a standardized short set, or else is a free form text field to act as a comment to explain why the inference occured (ie. results of investigations and caveats/justification for inference conclusion).
 - Proposal that the inferred should be a composite license structure.  This proposal should be discussed in the next meeting.