General Meeting/Minutes/2013-09-04

• Attendance: 7
• Minutes of Aug meeting approved
• Lead by Phil Odence

Business Team Report - Jack/Scott

• Much of recent focus has been on LinuxCon. All organized for meetings at this point.
• Team has recently started up a page to track adoption along 3 dimensions
  • http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Business_Team/Adoption
    • License List
    • Consuming / Producing SPDX Docs
    • Using Meta-tags
      • Also trying to gather best practices for this area in particular
• Goals
  • The team is also working on laying out longer term goals, plans and metrics
• Press Release
  • Phil is coordinating a press release to announce 1.2 at LinuxCon
  • Kate and Jack providing input to Phil; LF marketing resources helping to write/release

Legal Team Report - ScottL

• Continuing to focus on creating marked up license templates
  • Discussion the use of general guidelines vs. license-specific markups.
  • We are relying on guidelines when possible, markups for cases not handled
  • Recent discussion on extra/optional language included at the end of some license
  • All this will be a topic for a joint tech/legal discussion at LinuxCon

Tech Team Report - Gary

• Complete attention of the team has been on Spec 1.2
  • Should be released or very close by LinuxCon
  • Tech team will finish review Tuesday and will put the penultimate version out for broader input.
  • Tools will lag by a week.

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck
• Gary O'Neall, Source Auditor
• Mark Gisi, Wind River
• Scott Sterling, Palamida
• Scott Lamons, HP
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Pierre Lapointe, nexB