General Meeting/Minutes/2018-10-04

• Attendance: 8
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of Sept meeting approved

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Spec
  • Focus on multiple formats
    • How do deal with XML, JSON, YAML
    • Proposal to link to software heritage identifies
      • SW heritage- presentation came out recently on how code should be ID’ed in repos
      • Seems to make sense to extend references to point to
      • General agreement on last tech call
• Tooling
  • Got integrated on line tools up
    • License submittal
    • XML editor
    • Beta quality, ready to go. http://spdxtools.sourceauditor.com
• GSOC has worked very well
  • Should thank Google
    • Post on Website
    • Could use some social media
    • Topic for Outreach
  • May want to point projects to FSFEurope software reuse site which advocates SPDX https://reuse.software/
    • Would be a good credibility builder
    • The link is on the site, but not easy to find
• Other Groups
  • NTIA- Government group defining a BoM standard
  • Prototype work in health care
    • Fingers crossed that they will use SPDX
  • SWID
    • Active discussion
    • Mapping fields between SPDX an SW
  • Other groups may be able to use our use cases
    • They are wrestling with what is a components
    • Also, how a company can keep their own supplementary license list
      • Can do via a SPDX doc that is just licenses and make external reference to
    • Steve W will help out

Legal Team Report - Jilayne

• New license backlog
  • Trying to clear out for next release
  • Looking forward to new tooling
  • Could use testing help
  • Need some Python help on the tools
    • Mostly fixing up formatting stuff

Outreach Team Report - Jack

• Little activity
• Regrouping

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Matthew Crawford, ARM
• Jilayne Lovejoy
• Jack Manbeck, TI
• Steve Winslow, LF
• Mark Atwood, Amazon