Technical Team/Minutes/2014-08-05

August 5, 2014

Attendees

• Gary O'Neall
• Bill Schineller
• Scott Sterling
• Kate Stewart
• Mark Gisi

Review or RDF documentation

• licenseInfoInFile - do we keep it? How is it different from declared license and concluded license for a file?
  • Is there a need for declared license?
  • We need a better distinction between licenseInfoInFile, declaredLicense, and concludedLicense (especially between the first two)
  • Declared license is a statement by the copyright holder. licenseInfoInFile is the actual text found.
  • Example:
    • licenseInfoInFile = MIT
    • licenseInfoInFile = BSD 4 clause
    • licenseInfoInFile = GPL 2+
    • licenseInfoInFile = LicenseRef-22
    • licenseDeclared = (MIT and BSD 4 clause and GPL2+ and LicenseRef-22)
    • licenseConcluded = GPL2+
  • agree to keep licenseInfoInFile and it is NOT a subproperty of licenseConcluded
  • What is the precise definition for declared license? General the language from the spec for package.
  • agree to keep licenseConcluded - the definition will be a generalization of the package licenseConcluded in 1.2
  • should licenseConcluded be optional? NOASSERTION is really the optional component
  • Definitions:
    • licenseInfoInFile = a single license ID per actual licensey text found IN this (text) file.

(This is ideal field for a scanner to populate. Four possible kinds of values 'none', 'noassertion', SPDXID, LicenseRef-ID)

• • • licenseDeclared = (NEW for 2.0 - can be applied to any copyrightable SPDXItem, including all the way down to File) =

('licenseDeclared' was a license EXPRESSION at Package level only) NOW: 'licenseDeclared' licenses declared by the authors of the ITEM (where ITEM could be a Package, File, even Snippet) ("Three" possible kinds of values 'none', 'noassertion', or license EXPRESSION)

• • • licenseConcluded: a license EXPRESSION that is concluded (by a reviewer)

("Three" possible kinds of values 'none', 'noassertion', or license EXPRESSION)