Technical Team/Minutes/2013-10-01

Oct. 1, 2013

Attendees

• Bill Schineller
• Gary O’Neall
• Jack Manbeck
• Mark Gisi
• Kirsten Newcomer

Agenda

• SPDX 1.2

SPDX 1.2

• Decided to use the “pass the baton” process
  • Mark will edit Gary’s copy which already include Jack’s comments
  • Mark will send it on to Bill who will make the additional comments
  • Bill will send it back to Gary will to add the RDF terms once Bill is done
  • Gary will send out to tech team for review after RDF added in clean PDF form with a summary of changes in the email
  • We will send it out to the broader team after Kate has a chance to review early next week

Standardizing License IDs

• Currently, there is a Wiki describing best practices
• Dicussion on whether it should be standardized or just a best practice
  • The identifier spec has not been thought through as well as other elements of the spec
  • There is some urgency with the Das U-Boot press release and the Linux Kernel tagging proposal
  • Consensus that it should be standardized, but different opinion on the timing
  • Next steps: Breakout discussion on standardizing license ID references in source code with a goal to creating a proposed standard or identifying specific issues to be solved in order to create a standard
    • Should include legal team
    • Focus on license ID references in source code, but may also include discussion notices and the need for capturing them in source as well
    • Jack will followup with Jilayne on scheduling a joint session, possibly the next legal call