Legal Team/Minutes/2011-04-20

 

SPDX Legal Worksteam Meeting Minutes – 20-April-2011

 

Attendees:

Esteban Rockett (Motorola)

Jilayne Lovejoy (OpenLogic)

Karen Copenhaver (LF/Choate)

Tom Incorvia (Microfocus)

Phil Odence (Blackduck)

Paul Madick (HP)

Kate Stewart (Canonical)

Michael Herzog (NexB)

Scott Peterson (HP)

Andy Wilson (Intel)

 

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Minutes:

- The group continued to drive on the below key issues:

(1) The "licensing/legal terms/disclaimer" for the SPDX meta-data;

(2) Method to revise SPDX metadata, including the option of using a changelog; and

(3) Confidentiality-state of SPDX metadata. 

- For #3 above, the group concluded that both a mandatory "radio-button" style confidentiality feature should be included in the specification, with an optional open text field for additional text, if needed.

- For #2, the group began discussing the Open Data Commons PDDL 1.0 (http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/), and other alternative approaches.  Creative Commons was re-visited and explained that CC is problematic if the author/creator can be anonymous as previously agreed.

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