Legal Team/Minutes/2011-01-12

Legal Worksteam Meeting Minutes - 20110112

 

SPDX Legal Worksteam Meeting Minutes – 12-January-2011

Attendees:

Esteban Rockett (Motorola)


Kate Stewart (Canonical)

Kim Weins (OpenLogic)

Peter Williams (OpenLogic)

Mark Gisi (WindRiver)

Paul Madick (HP)

Scott Peterson (HP)

Jilayne Lovejoy (OpenLogic)

Tom Incorvia (Microfocus)

Andy Wilson (Intel)

Scott Lamons (OpenLogic)

Michael Herzog (NexB)

Karen Copenhaver (Linux Foundation)

 

Minutes:

A.  Review of December Meeting Minutes - Team was asked to review December meeting minutes by 20-Jan-2011; for approval at meeting scheduled for 26-Jan-2011.

B. "Create Process/Method to Add Licenses" - Team agreed with moving the process/method to created/add new licenses (to the standard SPDX license list) to the SPDX Business Workstream.

C. SPDX Metadata License - Team agreed to pick a default license for the SPDX metadata, such default license to be agreed by this team and Linux Foundation Member counsel.  BSD-based/MIT-like was the general consensus.  Whether additional proprietary licenses would be allowed was tabled, pending the decision on the default metadata license.  Rockett and Karen Copenhaver to lead.

D. Required use of Standard License Acronyms - Michael Herzog proposed that this requirement be limited to those publishing SPDX metadata.  No objections from the team.

E. Issue raised from Tech Workstream on the need for a Legal Policy on "SPDX Not Validating License Recited" - This topic lead into a detailed discussion of "objective" verse "subjective" metadata.   A second meeting was scheduled for 14-Jan-2011 to conclude this issue.  See minutes from 14-Jan-2011 meeting.