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Current issues/topics (this is a general list and may not touch upon everything) -- updated April 6

 

1) License addition process

A) Legal team has taken this back over from business team; see Adam Cohn's email summarizing current proposal - To be discussed on next legal call 4/18

 

2) Formatting and "master list" for License List (i.e. actual license text files)

Currently the "master" consists of spreadsheet with list + individual .txt files for license text field = downloadable zip file.  This is then converted into html pages for website.  Peter, Gary, and Jilayne have had initial discussion on this issue; to be discussed further with more fleshed out proposal

A) PROPOSAL:  License text files formatted in HTML instead of .txt files as default; can convert from there into text file with tool if people want that too; 

  1. Option to use HTML to indicate some of matching rules?

B) For back-end management of License List overall: proposal to use Bugzilla and GIT repository in background for management  - easier tracking of changes and gets it off Jilayne's desktop

 

3) Other administrative to-dos 

A) Add licenses to list or other updates ("DONE" indicates completed for v1.15; rest some will be done for v1.16)

  1. Add FreeBSD - DONE
  2. Add NetBSD licenses  - DONE
  3. Add 4-clause UC BSD license - DONE
  4. Add CDDL v1.1 - DONE
  5. AGPL full name is "v3" not "v3.0" like everything else (short identifier is correct) - DONE
  6. PHP license issue (see email) - DONE
  7. Add MPL 2.0 other header version (for time being to be consistent with GPL)
  8. finish license text review of .txt files - still some to do
  9. add US Gov't works - add short identifier to list; see email from David Wheeler
  10. proposal to add some kind of short identifier for copyright notice only (and "all rights reserved"?" - Fedora has this, maybe adopt what they use?

B) Other to-dos

    • update License List fields protocol on website

C) Other issues (some to be discussed over next legal calls upcoming)

  1. GPL exceptions - we don't have them all, list some of the others and variations on text - can someone do some research on this issue?
  2. eCos is really a GPL header with an exception... (see bigger issue above)
  3. Lucent Public License - naming issues - see notes in spreadsheet
  4. Sugar CRM license - see notes in spreadsheet
  5. Propose short identifier for copyright notice only "all rights reserved"
  6. OSI issues - waiting on them
  7. FSF license list match-up - licenses that need to be added?
    • JL has done initial pass - needs further research
  8. Fedora license list reach-out via email (he won't be at LF Collab Summit)
    • JL has begun discussion with Tom Calloway
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