General Meeting/Minutes/2019-10-03

Legal Team – Steve

Working on the next release – 3.7
- Looking for volunteers to put together the XML and test files
- Targeting next week
- Small release
Trend – licenses that don’t strictly follow the open source definition (e.g. source available but some proprietary restrictions)
- Discussion on whether these should be included and update the license inclusion principles – more information available at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/925
- Looking to make a decision early in the 3.8 release

SPDX Lite
- Changes are added as a pull request and will likely be accepted soon
Security fields to be added in 2.2
- Working with Uday on a Google Doc which will be turned into a pull request
- Coordinating with Todo group and others
Looking at adjusting the minimum required fields to allow for security use cases without all the licensing
- General support for reducing the number of mandatory fields
- Steve will bring to the legal team the discussion on removing the of the mandatory legal related fields
GSoC – completed, all students passed
- SPDX Tool updates which include the GSoC contributions are all checked in
- Plan to update the spdxtools website within the next 2 weeks
- Amazon will start using the namespace features soon
Request to add specification for the namespace
- Mark agreed and will create a pull request
- The license ID web page can also be updated

Several compliance and SPDX related talks planned for the Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon at the end of the month