General Meeting/Minutes/2017-06-01

• Attendance: 9
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of May meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Good progress on getting spec to GitHub
  • Should have a new version within the next month
  • Will be adapting processes to new source
• Substantively working though list of items for next release
  • Still up in the air whether we will go to a 2.2 or directly to 3.0
    • Need to resolve by Aug
    • 2.2 candidates- clean up appendices for license list work, a few additional fields
  • 3.0 will imply compatibility issues
  • Timeframe depends on above, but likely 2018 in any case
• Summer of Code
  • A number of students have started
  • Participation in Tech Calls
  • One just starting to commit to GitHub
• Tooling
  • Moving apace
• News- Someone from IBM reported at OSCON that they are using SPDX short identifiers internally

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul

• Lots of activity
• XML work still underway; Gary supporting with tooling
• Other large threads
  • Discussion about how to deal with licenses that have been translated
    • There is a default policy with which we’ve been consistent
    • Re-looking into this in light of new XML stuff and need for automated matching
    • JL started a Wiki page to pull together all the proposals
  • Kate/JL reached out to FSF
    • For rallying support
    • Issue: how we represent license and “or later” with the syntax sometimes goes unnoticed
      • Perhaps recasting as a separate v2 only license is a better way to handle
      • But there are implications we need to think through

Outreach Team Report

• Basically we are still working on a proposal for how to allow tools to get a badge or certification for working with SPDX documents
• and an umbrella project  for Github for all of our projects out there.
• Kate- also looking to create an archive of past projects which are no longer active
• Backoff at LinuxCon Europe (October in Prague) is likely.
  • Working on test suite to be available for this.

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Michael Herzog- nexB
• Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
• Kate Steward, Linux Foundation
• Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Alexios Zavras, Intel
• Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation