Technical Team/Minutes/2012-08-14

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Bill Schineller
• Brandon Robinson
• Kate Steward
• Kirsten Newcomer
• Michael Herzog
• Jack Manbeck
• Marshall Clow
• Ed Warnicke
• Ibrahim Haddad
• Peter Williams

Agenda

• 1.1
• Legal update on Spdx Lite
• 2.0 Use Cases

Legal Update on Spdx Lite

• Can’t use the word “Lite”
• See the minutes from SPDX legal: Legal_Team/Minutes/2012-07-25
• Legal recognizes and supports use cases where license information for work in progress can be captured.
• A follow-up action in the legal team to review the required fields.
• Propose a follow-up discussion with both legal and technical team on Tuesday – Kate will follow-up.

1.1

• Disconnect in how license references are added to extracted licensing information (Bug #1058)
  • Agreed to use ExtractedLicensingInfo and add “seeAlso” property
  • Gary will add seeAlso to ExtractingeLicensingInfo and check to see if there is any impact to the spreadsheet
• Agreed to add the RDF for the License (bug #1037)
• Agree to make the file name as optional (bug #1061)
  • Update spec
  • Update rdf cardinality
  • Update tools
• Propose to leave sort order alone for license list (bug #1053) – Peter already updated the bug to wont fix.
• Peter will update the RDF this week
• All: should review appendix 4
• Swap Appendix 3 and Appendix 4 – Kate
• Kate will do another pass this Thursday

2.0 Use Cases

• Yocto use case reviewed
  • The use case covers both the tools and the built image
  • Patches create an interesting dimension to the use case