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Legal Team/Minutes/2019-08-15
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2019-08-15
Special session for demonstration of new license submission features from 2019 Google Summer of Code project
Attending
- Umang Taneja
- Mark Atwood
- Shawn Clark
- John Horan
- Rahul Kumar
- Jilayne Lovejoy
- Paul Madick
- Tushar Mittal
- Thomas Steenbergen
- Steve Winslow
Minutes
- YouTube video: https://youtu.be/1xVgZAF7rkk
- Recording of demo session + discussion: https://zoom.us/recording/share/jhilyN7bg60yBRWgCJbBb_d35iVzTsxnC3z77ODSj-CwIumekTziMw
- Link to repo: https://github.com/spdx/spdx-online-tools/
Extra meeting – demo from Umang Taneja on GSoC 2019 License Submission Tool improvements
Developing the new features included the following tasks:
- Create API for license submittal feature
- Create SPDX license matcher => tool to match submitted license against SPDX license list. Takes into account SPDX matching guidelines
- Check if license already present on license list
- Check whether license is not yet approved / is rejected – looks only at what’s been submitted through the tool
- Improve XML generating algorithm and license submittal feature – added Beautify button inside tools. In process, breaks if license text itself has angle bracket tags
- Check for close matches, show diff, ask user if changes are substantial. Still working on PR
Suggestions:
- Diff to matching – include button / link to matching guidelines; include telling submitter which license is matching
- Diff against other licenses – can it be word-by-word rather than full line? Longer-term fix, would involve changing the full algorithm
