General Meeting/Minutes/2015-06-04-¶
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- Attendance: 13
- Lead by Phil Odence
- Minutes of May meeting approved
- Announcement- Kate Stewart has officially started at the Linux Foundation running compliance programs.
== Special Presentation - Gary =
- Kyle Mitchell, a lawyer/developer has equipped to popular package managers to support SPDX
- NPM for JavaScript
- Ruby Grems for Ruby
- Capabilities
- Check license for ID package metadata and flag issues
- Supporting both SPDX Short IDs and expression language
- Checks live current SPDX license list
- Similar to UBoot syntax but extended to include expressions
- GitHub new mirrors our tools repo hosted by LF
- This has started to increase visibility and awareness
- Enabled Kyle to contribute to tools
- JSON format has been added to the license formats
- Not officially supported...yet, but should be
- Other community news
- Poco projects and Linaro open dataplane now including SPDX short IDs
- OpenChain adopted as part of best practices doc
Tech Team Report - Kate¶
- Focus is on snippets
- Alternatives have been described and are under discussion
- Good time to get involved with Tech Team if you are interested in snippets
- Wiki now maintains a list of upcoming topics
Legal Team Report - Paul¶
- License list
- Now quarterly releases
- end of June, Sept, Dec
- June to include an expanded Exceptions List
- Joint Tech/Legal Meeting upcoming
- None/NoAssertion Discussion
- June 16, 9am PDT
- Also into discussion of standard headers
Biz Team Report - Jack¶
- Website
- Working on Getting Started Pages
- Framework established
- Seeking volunteers to help flesh out
- LinuxCon NA
- Gary's paper has been accepted
- Jack to secure room for plugfest
- Kate/Gary driving plugfest content
Cross Functional Topics - Phil¶
- Future Presentations for General Meeting
Attendees¶
- Phil Odence, Black Duck
- Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
- Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
- Mark Gisi, Wind River
- Jack Manbeck, TI
- Scott Sterling, Palamida
- Gary O’Neill, SourceA
- Kate Stewart, Linaro
- Michael Herzog, nexB
- Paul Madick, HP
- Henry Yandell, Apache
- Pierre Lapointe, nexB
- Scott Lamons, Lamansco