2019-02-07¶

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Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary¶

Tools
Applying to participate in GSoC for 2019
- Variety of proposals on Wiki: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/GSOC/GSOC_ProjectIdeas
- We’ll hear back end of Feb 26 if we are selected.
tools-golang
- Steve Winslow has contributed new Go libraries to SPDX to support generating SPDX documents see: https://github.com/spdx/tools-golang
- He also created a tool to scan the kernel looking for SPDXIDs that Kate used for her talk at LCA to get latest status of the Kernel.
- Go Steve!
Specification
Discussing Mark Atwood's Idea for alternative name spaces for companies licenses that are not open source.
- Spec can handle via "LicenseRef-"
- What guidance do we provide?
Unblocking contributions to 2.2
- Kate is working with Thomas to unblock contributions to 2.2 (switch master over to 2.2 from 2.1.1)
- We will be starting to take pull requests into 2.2 spec, for features approved, please assign issue to yourself if you want to write up the feature.
- Focus for next few months
Started a tech call in Asia friendly time
Call will be on 2nd Tuesday of each month 10am Japan/12pm Australia (and 5pm PST Monday) on https://www.uberconference.com/SPDXTeam
First topic will be SPDX-lite discussion that's started in the OpenChain workgroup.

License List
New process and links posted
- Published policy says advocates need to stay engaged or requests may drop off the radar
- GitHub process seems like a great way to handle requests
Need work outside the call

LinuxCon Aussie Presentation
Included Stat1/3 of files in Kernel have SPDX in them
Great momentum
Panel at FOSDEM on OSS Compliance tooling
Alexios attended
- Lots or proposals on tools, so organizers turned into a panel w/ Bradley K moderating
- Theme was need for interoperatblity
Video will be published
Alexios also mentioned that at recent copyleft conference, SPDX came up in every talk
Website
Looking into status of move to Wordpress with LF
Request a new license page has been directed to GitHub repo
Need an Outreach reboot

Alternate name space
Basics
- Many companies have source available non-OSS licenses
- Would be good for companies to be able to have standard local names
Proposal is to use DNS
- Addresses issues with flat, first come first served
- DNS will be around for a long time
- Allows companies to self-assign
- Internationalized by default
- Immediately readable
- Leading dot clearly differentiates from SPDX standard names
- Challenges
- Doesn’t cary text
- Companies’ names may change through M&A and may lose domains in the process
- How to ensure that a company doesn’t change license text
Sentiment is in favor of
- Retain “License Ref” prefix
- Standardize on place to log license data
- In a one-license SPDX doc
- Mark will mock up with one of the Amazon licenses, collaborating with Kate

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