General Meeting/Minutes/2016-11-03

• Attendance: 12
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of Sept meeting approved (Oct meeting was cancelled due to LinuxCon Europe)

Special Guest - Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu

• Lei
  • Working for Fujitu
  • Developing on house Distro
  • Spoke at ALS and Linux Conference about experience with SPDXX

• Reason Fujitsu needs SPDX
  • Want an SPDX file for all their packages
  • Customers ofter require license info
  • Released under GPL3, but includes software under other license as well. Many!
    • MIT, BSD, GPL2, etc.
  • SPDX is good for this purpose
  • So they added into production Development

• Yocto SPDX
  • Lucky for them that Yocto supports SPDX
  • But the activity on Yocto SPDX has been slow
  • Found some issues when using
    • Only supports SPDX 1.1
    • Doesn’t do a great job even with that
    • Is complex to use; takes a long time
    • May introduce license conflicts
  • In the end you can download the SPDX

• Fujitsu’s contributions to Yocto SPDX
  • So they did some work to improve:
    • Created a patch to upgrade to SPDX 1.2
      • Unfortunately was never accepted into Yocto
  • Would like to upgrade to SPDX 2.0
  • And to improve performance
  • Has been working on some of the SPDX open source tools
    • including DoSocks developed by UNO
  • Lei has been continuing to submit improvements to Yocto
    • Improved performance
  • Currently discussing more improvements with Yocto
  • Will be continuing to improve and to upgrade to SPDX 2.1

• Question
  • Has yocto been receptive?
    • Yocto has not been active or focused on SPDX.
    • Some people have been interested
    • Not sure why they are not interested
  • Kate will help and follow up

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Spec
  • SPDX 2.1 is now released and official
    • Starting to focus on use cases and tooling
    • last call was a joint call with the Legal Team
      • Templetazation focus
      • Agreed on interfaces between teams
• Tooling
  • Incorporated results from the bake off
    • Overall, everyone at the bake off got good feedback, leading to improvement of all tools
  • XML Format
    • Legal Team has been working on new format for license templates
    • Makes it easier for multiple contributors
    • Working now on making it consumable for external tools
    • Really good progress
      • Should have draft standards in the next month or two.

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul

• Joint Call with Tech Team
  • Worked on syncing tag names to be consistent with spec
  • Went really well
• License List
  • Business as usual with new licenses
  • More license requests for licenses in other languages
  • Probably need to have a discussion about how to handle consistently

Outreach Team Report - Jack

• Website
  • New site is up
  • Jack’s in process of posting new stuff
• Next agenda
  • Working on new docs, templates, etc
    • Mostly to help explain aspects of how to use
    • Trying to assemble list of topics and then prioritize
    • Very open to ideas

Cross Functional Topics - Phil

• Future topic - Will be a discussion of license in different languages
  • Legal Team will come forward with a strawman. A few months out.
• Guest stars
  • Always looking for more

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Lei Mao Hui, Fujitsu
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Yev Bronshteyn, Black Duck
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Gary O’Neill, SourceAuditor
• Tarek Jamal, ARM
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Alexios Zavras, Intel