General Meeting/Minutes/2014-03-06

• Attendance: 10
• Minutes of Feb meeting approved
• Lead by Phil Odence

Biz Team Report - Jack (unable to attend, but provided written summary)

• Agenda is fixed for Linux Collab and posted on the SPDX web site. LF will publish as well.
• Tech Report Framework is almost complete. Will be ready to go by Collab.
• We have a new co-chair, Mikael Söderberg from Pelagicore
• We are looking at documenting an SPDX ecosystem and generating vertical specific whitepapers on using SPDX.

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• Calendar Invite
  • Some issues with old ones; light attendance at last meeting as a consequence
  • Please delete. Everyone on the LT should have a new one from Mike Dolan.
• Fedora List
  • Still pushing to get through by CollabSummit
  • Goal is to cover as much as possible of the Fedora "good list" on SPDX License List
  • Jilayne doing lots of work herself; appreciating any help.
• CollabSummit- Focus for legal meeting with be on the expression language.

Tech Team Report - Gary

• Two main threads of late:
  • Applying real examples to the 2.0 model
  • Working out how to upgrade Tag Value format to handle new model
    • Sorting through three proposals: Extending current approach, JSON, RDF
• Model
  • There had been two models, one more evolutionary, one more revolutionary
  • Now focused on one based on the more evolutionary approach.
  • Tech team will present model at the next General Meeting, April 3

Cross Functional Issues – Phil

• OSI Collaboration Update
  • We have had some interaction, but have not yet set up a joint meeting
• 2.0 Language on SPDX.org
  • No feedback
  • Need to review post CollabSummit
• License Expression Syntax - MarkG
  • One more meeting planned prior to CollabSummit
  • Aiming for draft and examples for face to face discussion
  • Hoping for closure at CollabSummit

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Pierre Lapointe, nexB
• Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
• Jilanyne Lovejoy, ARM
• Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Mary Hardy, Qualcomm
• Gary O'Neill, Source Auditor
• Tom Incorvia, MicroFocus