Technical Team/Minutes/2014-06-10

June 10, 2014

Attendees

• Bill Schineller
• Gary O'Neall
• Kate Stewart
• Scott Sterling
• Jeff Luszcz
• Michael Herzog
• Jack Manbeck
• Mark Gisi

Agenda

• Feedback on proposal for filetypes
• License expression format
• Google summer of code

Google Summer of Code

• Would like some additional visibility on status and projects
  • Being discussed in business team
  • Merge tool status discussed - progress being made. Will post weekly status to mailing list

Filetypes

• Nuno has a number of additional file types that he has used
• Concern about too much detail and possible "re-inventing the wheel"
• Discussion on Mime-type as a related standard
• Question on how this impacts licensing
• Agree that more detailed file types are needed for tooling, but is it needed in the resultant SPDX document?
• Proposal: Take media type and subtype
  • Concern that we might want to express source since it is licensing related
• Follow-up to map mime types to file types - Kate will follow-up

License Expression Language

• Mark Gisi has a draft shared with those on the call
• Request to merge the detailed syntax descriptions from the current spec into the proposal
• Discussion on parenthesis
  • Not included on the list of precedence, but described later (since parenthesis is not an operator)
  • Proposal to restrict prenthesis to AND and OR
    • Concern over increasing complexity
    • Agreed that it is not a good practice
    • Mark will consider adding to the spec
  • Jack proposed an alternative way of describing license expressions - will send to Mark for consideration