Legal Team/Minutes/2015-08-20

Attendees

(limited attendance due to LinuxCon NA having just ended yesterday)

1) Update from LinuxCon - quick thoughts from Mark, but will do bigger update next call

Biggest SPDX-related meeting was the bakeoff went well, good feedback from that.
Gary gave his presentation - good showing there.
Mark gave a talk too, but not related to SPDX directly. Premise was: great sharing is happening, but if forget to include license info - the code ceases to be "open". And "grading" of projects by tool by WindRiver, showing example of Apache and FSF projects who get A+

2) Headers project: Mark working on drafting summary of issue and proposal; will send to group once in more firm, for review

discussed some further thoughts on Mark's proposal
discussed markup for standard headers: about 51 licneses with standard headers; HTML is not formatting correclty on web pages - this will be fixed as of 2.2 release at end of September
about 25 standard headers need markup, many of which have copyright notices
what about copyright notices? should they be in license text and headers at all? there is a separate field in SPDX spec for copyright notices, and matching guideline #10 http://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/matching-guidelines says to ignore copyright notice for purposes of matching license text, so maybe
* oddball case: when the copyright notice is not at top of license or header, but in middle of or part of text - previously decided that in this case, the copyright notice would get markup
* oddball case: when the license itself has copyright notice - previously decided that this would not get markup and be part of match. (should the matching guideline re: copyright notices mention this scenario?)
* for discussion on next legal call...
for replaceable text in standard headers, will add same markup as with licenses and use whatever is "original" (even if a blank line) as the example or original text when displayed on HTML pages

Next call agenda:

more thorough update from LinuxCon
copyright notice discussion
discuss updates to new page on license matching related proposals (please review page in advance and add to Wiki page in meantime)