Technical Team/Minutes/2017-11-07

Nov. 7, 2017

Attendees

• Gary O’Neall
• Kate Stewart
• Philippe Ombredanne

SPDX tooling

• A lot of work is needed to support the new XML format for the listed licenses
• Issues are listed on the tools github: https://github.com/spdx/tools/issues
• Suggest we update the Wiki to point to the issues

License Contrib Discuss

• Discussed having a license contrib. or “license commons” area where different people can contribute licenses which are not yet on the SPDX license list
• Discussed having a subdirectory or repository in github for groups to contribute
• Discussed the meta-data needed
  • Agreed that we should use the SPDX document as a way to presenting the license metadata
• Philippe will create a proposal for upcoming tech team

Linux Kernel SPDX ID Patch

• Patch(s) were made to add SPDX license ID’s to the Linux Kernel files
• Ongoing work to incorporate the patches
  • Some discrepancies between file and module licenses
    • Patching module license to match the file level licenses found