General Meeting/Minutes/2017-05-04

Guest Presentation- Philippe

ScanCode
- Open source project
- Tool to enable developers to find the license and origin of components they are using
Features
- Accurate
  - Scanned Linux kernel and results were superior to two other tools that were tested
- Handles source and binaries
- Well tested and community maintained
- Easy to improve license detection
How it works
- Input: Simple test files
- Performs a diff against a large number of licenses and mentions
- Handles packages via package manager.
- Uses natural language parser for copyrights
- Output in SPDX (or JSON)
Two pieces ScanCode Toolkit and Code Manager
Other projects in code.org

Restarted discussions about feature needs for next release
- Looking at:
  - Philippe’s results
  - Debian
  - Other testing results
- Wiki page has ideas for next release or two
  - Feel free to add there or via email
Also looking at putting together a test suite
- Set of packages
- Results to be compared
Google SoC
- Select three proposals
- Students being notified about now
- Next steps
  - Community bonding
  - Working with Students
  - Will provide status

Working on Umbrella project
- A wrapper around all the repositories for tools
Discussion of a tool certification project
- Aiming to have done in Q1 18 timeframe
- Initial testing at LinuxCon Europe. Prague in Oct
Call for Papers this week for NA LinuxCon, LA in August

Down to 24 licenses to review
Proposal for how to handle non-English licenses
- Have handled some ad hoc
- Need a broader policy
- Will have implications for license matching guidelines