2019-10-03¶

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Legal Team – Steve¶

Working on the next release – 3.7
Looking for volunteers to put together the XML and test files
Targeting next week
Small release
Trend – licenses that don’t strictly follow the open source definition (e.g. source available but some proprietary restrictions)
Discussion on whether these should be included and update the license inclusion principles – more information available at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/925
Looking to make a decision early in the 3.8 release

SPDX Lite
Changes are added as a pull request and will likely be accepted soon
Security fields to be added in 2.2
Working with Uday on a Google Doc which will be turned into a pull request
Coordinating with Todo group and others
Looking at adjusting the minimum required fields to allow for security use cases without all the licensing
General support for reducing the number of mandatory fields
Steve will bring to the legal team the discussion on removing the of the mandatory legal related fields
GSoC – completed, all students passed
SPDX Tool updates which include the GSoC contributions are all checked in
Plan to update the spdxtools website within the next 2 weeks
Amazon will start using the namespace features soon
Request to add specification for the namespace
Mark agreed and will create a pull request
The license ID web page can also be updated

Several compliance and SPDX related talks planned for the Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon at the end of the month

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