General Meeting/Minutes/2012-05-31

Attendance: 10

May 17 minutes approved
     

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• Finalizing work defining the team's mission purpose of License List that were published two weeks ago. Please comment now or hold your peace. Latest draft:

• Legal Work Group description:

  "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."

   SPDX License List description:

  "The SPDX License List is a list of commonly found open source software licenses for the purposes of being able to easily and efficiently identify such licenses in an SPDX document. The SPDX License List includes a standardized short identifier, full name for each license, vetted license text, other basic information, and a canonical permanent URL. By providing a short identifier, users can efficiently refer to a license without having to redundantly reproduce the full license." 

• Have been providing input to 1.1 spec to incorporate latest thinking on License List and to ensure consistent vocabulary.
• Working to make sure new website content is up to date.
• Turning attention back to matching guidelines. Aiming to reach closure with 1.1 release (about a month)

Business Team Report - Scott/Jack

• Business Team is eager for feedback from other team's on Mission/Vision. Looking to come to closure in the next few weeks. Expectation is that this will help with prioritization of use cases for the 2.0 effort. Latest version (embedded in a set of slides): <a href="http://www.spdx.org/system/files/spdx_mission_review_may_2012_v2.pdf">http://www.spdx.org/system/files/spdx_mission_review_may_2012_v2.pdf</a>
• Also, pulling together a description of Business Team's function. Scott has drafted and will be working on this in the next Business Team meeting.

Technical Team Report - Kate

• 2.0 work
• A little over half the use cases have been fleshed out. Others are considering in a "graveyard" unless more work gets done on them.
• http://www.spdx.org/wiki/spdx-20-use-cases&nbsp;
• 1.1 work
• Hoping to bring to closure in the next few weeks.
• Near final draft to be posted next week, then open for two weeks of comment.

Cross Functional Issues – Phil

• Website Update - Pierre
• The effort has been rejuvinated. Content is moving to the new staging area. 
• Web team is ready to flip the switch when content is set. No date set.
• Pierre is confirming that Steve is prepared to move wholesale sections (past meeting minutes, License List, etc.)
• LinuxCon Papers
• Scott submitting 1.1 update proposal 
• Gary has submitted a proposal for talking about the OSS tools

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck Software
• Pierre LaPonte, nexB
• Kate Stewart, Canonical
• Michael Herzog, nexB
• Scott Lamons, HP
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Jilayne Lovejoy, OpenLogic
• Chuck Gaudreau, Protecode
• Gary O'Neall, SourceAuditor
• Mark Gisi, WindRiver