Technical Team/Minutes/2011-01-18

Attendees:

 

Bill Schinelle

Gary O'Neall

Peter Williams

Kate Stewart

 

Next week - move time to 4:00PM Eastern

 

- Kate's grammar for the 'tag-value' format / DEB-5

- Gary's slides for tools to be made available

- recap / status of inclusion of new license fields

- Proposal process

 

Grammar Tag-Value / DEB-5

 - Is there a difference between the grammar embedded and the proposed grammar?

                - Similar.  Purpose of Kate's proposal is to resolve ambiguities.

                - Difference in syntax of the grammar - DEB-5 compatibility would require a different grammar

representation

                - Concern about forward compatibility - ability of a version X parser to understand version X+N documents

                - There is a goal to be compatible with the DEB-5 which would lead more to the DEB-5 based grammar

                - Need a way to map between the RDF and tag value and between tag value and RDF

 

Gary's slides for tools to be made available

                - Can the pretty printer output tag-value

                                - Concern about not having a formal parser for the tag-value - could lead to bugs if hand-coded emitter for the tag-value

                                - Gary agreed to prototype a tag-value emitter

                - Gary will ping Kate for the current Spreadsheet format

                - For contribution/feedback switch from emailing spdx.org to use bugzilla

                - Mention that in the spec there will be a grammar and an RDF OWL document

 

recap / status of inclusion of new license fields

                - An asserted license field seems to have achieved consensus

                - Proposal to split the license field into asserted license, "detected" or "seen" license, and a comment field

                - Will continue the proposal process on the spdx-tech mailing list and in bugzilla