Technical Team/Minutes/2011-06-28

Minutes 6/28/2011

Attendees:

• Bill Schineller
• Branden Robinson
• Peter Williams
• Gary O’Neall
• Kate Stewart

Agenda:

• Feedback from the betas

Tool defects:

• Posted as bugs in bugzilla
• Bug 824 – error if the standard licenses are not present in the spdx document
  • OK to assume that the type information will be present for non-standard licenses
  • Basic design to attempt to load the RDF graph for standard licenses
    • First attempt will be against the spdx.org/licenses website
    • If the first attempt fails, the a static file distributed with the application in the jar file will be used
• Plan to fix and updated the tools before next Tuesday’s call

Other beta feedback:

• Discussion on the Fossology support
• Recognizing “families” of licenses
• Agent definitions – disconnect between tag/value restricted to “Person …” where RDF is just a string. Decided to discuss next week. Peter will provide a proposal for RDF.
• Versions – Decided that the beta version of the spec should be 0.9. Will update spec and tools.
• Package Verification Code – update spec, documented in bug 832 – Gary and Kate to review.
• Next week, review (and clean up) bugs. Decide which ones need to be fixed for release 1.
• Discussion on the jar files/archive files found in a package. Decided to treat these as a single file with concluded licenses and “NONE” for the found license.
• FAQ’s – need to divide up the works. Will do this on next week’s call.