General Meeting/Minutes/2019-08-01

• Attendance: 11
• Lead by Phil Odence
• Minutes of July meeting approved

Special Presentations - Umang Taneja, Tanjong Smith, GSoC

• Umang
  • License submittal workflow automation
    • Aim is to enhance user experience
    • Compare submitted text against existing licenses to see if there’s duplication or close match
    • Problems he’s trying address
      • What if the license is on the list, proposed, rejected…or a close match to one of those
      • Current XML formatting- word-wrap doesn’t match license
    • Also creating/documenting an API
  • Tasks:
    • Create API- use without logging in, so can be accessed by other tools
    • Create License Matcher- looks for exact and close matches
      • Returns all matches and close matches
    • Compare with not accepted as well as rejected licenses.
      • Reports appropriately according to match
      • Relies on user input regarding whether to go ahead with submittal
    • Improve formatting of generated license
  • Screenshots available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NMcLZVXxBV2PZobPJh1OugbCfC2d8kbAOX4m4TauEYk/edit?usp=sharing
  • Some discussion of how the workflow should work with close matches
  • Aiming for demo in future Legal Team meeting

• Tanjong
  • License namespace
    • A way to name valid licenses outside of the License List
    • Created namespace and UI
    • Also a mechanism for turning into a license request
    • Took feedback from the joint/legal team meeting

Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary

• Spec
  • Progress on Appendix for including other fields in the source like the license ID
    • Worked with Legal team members and general agreement to keep scope at file level
    • Recommend using existing Tags with SPDX prefix, and expectation that format follows fields.
    • Motivation is that this makes it easier for tools to pick up data accurately from source.
  • SPDX document generation from project sources (demo'd last month)
    • Philip is looking for projects to try the tool on, if you have some you want to experiment with, please contact him.
• Tools
  • GSoC
    • Continues to go very well
    • All students passed second evaluation
  • Looking for feedback from community:
    • License matching algorithm approaches
      • Some encoded rules
      • Some depended on XML markup
      • Should we encode in XML or handle programmatically? (Discuss with Gary)

Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul/Steve

• License List
  • 3.6 version went out last month
  • Working issues in 3.7
    • Good input/support from Tech Team
  • Recent meetings have been joint with Tech Team
    • Very helpful at this point

Outreach Team Report - Kate

• Shane has readied the survey
• Phil to reach out to Shane and Jack and determine deployment plan.

Cross Functional -

• None

Attendees

• Phil Odence, Black Duck/Synopsys
• Matthew Crawford, ARM
• Umang Taneja, GSoC
• Tanjong Smith, GSoC
• Steve Winslow, LF
• Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
• Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
• Paul Madick, Dimension Data
• Mark Atwood, Amazon
• Jilayne Lovejoy, Canonical
• Jack Manbeck, TI