General Meeting/Minutes/2019-05-02

• Attendance: 15
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of April meeting approved

Special Presentation - Aaron/Jilayne

• FINOS Presentation on new handbook: https://github.com/finos-osr/OSLC-handbook
  • Discussion on including License Exceptions in the handbook
    • Gary to contribute to issue on license exceptions, proposal for how to write the exception YAML so it can be included in tooling for license expressions
• ( Suggestion to coordinate with reuse.software
  • Suggestion to reach out to OASDL

Tech Team Report - Gary

• GSOC all 8 slots granted, projects will be announced on May 6
• Jack got the PDF generation working for the spec, we will be transitioning to the github based spec process (thanks Jack!)
• 2.1.1 based on Thomas' Github work and Jack's PDF work will be out for review soon - 2 week review
• Tool bake-off and SPDX generation comparison proposed for October at European OSS Europe France
  • Anyone interested in participating should contact Gary or Kate

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul

• License List
  • Callout for help, request for more contributors and participants in the calls
  • Agenda for today
    • Improving the documentation - make it easier to find key information (like inclusion principles), especially for people contributing first time/requesting a new license
    • Discussion scheduled for today’s call regarding the inclusion principles, e.g., OSI approved but if OSI rejects, do we reject?
      • We do reject non-open source licenses today, but do we want to include licenses commonly found in the wild?

Outreach Team Report

• None

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
• Denver Gingerich, SFC
• Aaron Williamson, FINOS
• Jilayne Lovejoy
• Steve Winslow, LF
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Alexios Zavras, Intel
• John Horan, next
• JC Herz, Ion Channel
• Dave McLoughlin
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Philippe Ombrédanne- nexB
• Mark Atwood, Amazon