General Meeting/Minutes/2018-03-01

Tech Team Report - notes sent by Kate

Thomas continues to get closer on 2.1.1 release, most changes from Trevor merged now.
Reviewed PURL proposal and concensus was to adopt for 2.2, after we see it finalize and be picked up by other projects.
- PURL is a a generalized way to specify a package.
Discussion of multiple formats being supported (JSON, YAML, etc.), as long as there are translation tools, and we follow the RDF naming, agreement to introduce them in 2.2.

Website migration- No update from the LF
British Computer Society
- Open Source Group
- March 22
- Alexios presenting on SPDX
- https://ossg220318.eventbrite.co.uk/

3.1 LL release, end of March
- Then back to 3 month cadence
Jilayne working with FSF on status of their license evaluation
For Summit Topics
- Use of GitHub for licenses and Spec
Philipe ID’ed some licenses in the Kernel that are not in the list
- He’s putting together pull requests
- There are a number of others, the he believes might be candidate.
  - He’ll prioritize and will “drip” to the Legal Team
- Also some discussion about what to do, if anything, about proprietary licenses
  - Could be make sense to have a common identifier for commonly used ones
    - Could conceivably use the same architecture for proprietary
Also discussing a “relaxed” format.
- Not necessarily including all the checksums
- So could might introduce levels of SPDX compliance (A, AA, AAA…or something)
Discussion of how to get more lawyers involved.
- Women lawyers would be particularly welcome