General Meeting/Minutes/2013-08-01

• Attendance: 6
• Minutes of July meeting approved
• Lead by Phil Odence

Business Team Report - Jack/Scott

• Uboot
  • Popular project- boot loader for embedded devices
  • Approached us about defining a standard way to include SPDX-based license data in source code
  • The one challenge seems to be with handling non-standard license
• Linuxcon
  • Great news that we were able to get a room for Tuesday. (we had had one for Monday, but there are a lot of general and legal track sections on that day we didn't want to overlap with.
  • Working on agenda, but will include a discussion with the guy from Samsung presenting on SPDX.

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• Main focus is on creating marked up license templates
  • Daniel German has started taking formatted inputs from legal team and implement markups
  • Have been working out the process; seems very clear now.
  • Now just executing; should be at least well into it by LinuxCon
• New licenses submitted:
  • Uboot
  • Unlicense

Tech Team Report - Jack

• Spec 1.2
  • Should be released by LinuxCon
  • Tools will lag slightly. Could use more resources on tools, particularly tag value versions
  • May include a description of how to reference licenses in code (e.g. Uboot)
• Jack has documented the spec release process. (Kudos to Jack!)
  • Team agreed that for minor releases a tool lag is OK; for major releases, it should be simultaneous.
  • Would be good to have a 'diff' doc of some sort between releases

Cross Functional Issues – Phil

• Web Site Update - Jack
  • Put out call for tool submissions
  • Added blog and pictures to several sections
• IFOSSLR paper
  • Phil, Scott, Jilayne working on it
  • Has basically been accepted pending some revision

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Jilayne Lovejoy, OpenLogic
• Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
• Tom Incorvia, Microfocus
• Scott Lamons, HP
• Jack Manbeck, TI