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Business Team/Adoption
DRAFT AS OF 28 August 2013 Currently it is a draft until we formulate the plan at which time this sentence will be removed.
Contents
Adoption
This page is being used to track the adoption of SPDX.
We will track adoption in three key areas:
- SPDX License List
- Generating or consuming SPDX Documents
- Using SPDX meta tags in software
License List
Overview
The license list is a key component for SPDX. 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. For more information on the License List see the SPDX web site.
Goals
We talked about one year goals. Should we have one and five?
[proposal] Tool adoption: 5 or more license management / open source tracking tools vendors utilize the SPDX license list [proposal] Open Source Projects: 10 or more open source projects visibly utilize the SPDX license list in declaring licenses
Metrics
How we will measure adoption of the license list.
Proposal: Keep a running list of organizations/people who are using?
Generation and Consumption of SPDX Documents
Overview
The SPDX specification is centered on the SPDX document. Creation and consumption of SPDX documents is a key measure of success for the SPDX standardization efforts.
Goals
We talked about one year goals. Should we have one and five?
Metrics
How we will measure adoption of this.
Use of META Tags
Overview
This is a new area. It focuses on using META tags in code to help in identification of licensing and possibly other SPDX information. The technical team is looking at writing this up. Currently the U-boot community has started using a field called SPDX-License-Identifier. You can see an example here: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=post/post.c;h=4af5355fa5a20f9c2e763f37b269bea38d43e8ea;hb=6612ab33956ae09c5ba2fde9c1540b519625ba37
Goals
We talked about one year goals. Should we have one and five? Proposal: Publish guidelines and/or standards for meta tag inclusion by Linux Collab Summit 2014 Proposal: 5 or more open source projects utilize meta tags in their in development projects by end of year 2013
Metrics
How we will measure adoption of this.
Proposal: Do we keep a running list?
