Technical Team/Minutes/2011-01-18

Attendees

• Bill Schinelle
• Gary O'Neall
• Peter Williams
• Kate Stewart

Next week - move time to 4:00PM Eastern

Agenda

• Kate's grammar for the 'tag-value' format / DEB-5
• Gary's slides for tools to be made available
• recap / status of inclusion of new license fields
• Proposal process

Grammar Tag-Value / DEB-5

• Is there a difference between the grammar embedded and the proposed grammar?
• Similar. Purpose of Kate's proposal is to resolve ambiguities.
• Difference in syntax of the grammar
• DEB-5 compatibility would require a different grammar

representation

• Concern about forward compatibility - ability of a version X parser to understand version X+N documents
• There is a goal to be compatible with the DEB-5 which would lead more to the DEB-5 based grammar
• Need a way to map between the RDF and tag value and between tag value and RDF

Gary's slides for tools to be made available

• Can the pretty printer output tag-value
• Concern about not having a formal parser for the tag-value - could lead to bugs if hand-coded emitter for the tag-value
• Gary agreed to prototype a tag-value emitter
• Gary will ping Kate for the current Spreadsheet format
• For contribution/feedback switch from emailing spdx.org to use bugzilla
• Mention that in the spec there will be a grammar and an RDF OWL document

recap / status of inclusion of new license fields

• An asserted license field seems to have achieved consensus
• Proposal to split the license field into asserted license, "detected" or "seen" license, and a comment field
• Will continue the proposal process on the spdx-tech mailing list and in bugzilla