Legal Team/Minutes/2017-08-03

Attendees

1) Went through the licenses under consideration / new requests:

OSCAT license (new request): provided in German and English side-by-side; have some questions on sections 1.4 and 1.5 - will ask for more info from requestor and revisit on next call

2) Discussion around possibilities for implementing GPL-2.0-only / or later - see https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/or-later-vs-unclear-disambiguation

key issue identified: (input from FSF) GPL by default has “or later” in it - in order to use default configuration, have to add + to it;
other licenses have default of "or later" yet (EPL family, NPL family) don't' necessarily assume EPL-1.0 means 1.0 only?
Gary proposed another concept for a solution - add "only" operator, where you use neither + or only operators, it's the interpretation of the license (will add explanation to above wiki page)
all agreed no solution we could think of is elegant and doesn't cause problems
best result is to have solution that aligns with FSF wants and properly recognizes reality of other license with variant text as to "only" or "or later" options -- need to build out rest of research on that here: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/later-version-clauses
discuss with tech team on Tuesday, Aug 8th call

if you have + operator; could then say that nothing, it’s the legal interpretation of the license;