Technical Team/Minutes/2011-01-18¶
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Attendees¶
- Bill Schinelle
- Gary O'Neall
- Peter Williams
- Kate Stewart
Next week - move time to 4:00PM Eastern
Agenda¶
- Kate's grammar for the 'tag-value' format / DEB-5
- Gary's slides for tools to be made available
- recap / status of inclusion of new license fields
- Proposal process
Grammar Tag-Value / DEB-5¶
- Is there a difference between the grammar embedded and the proposed grammar?
- Similar. Purpose of Kate's proposal is to resolve ambiguities.
- Difference in syntax of the grammar
- DEB-5 compatibility would require a different grammar
representation¶
- Concern about forward compatibility - ability of a version X parser to understand version X+N documents
- There is a goal to be compatible with the DEB-5 which would lead more to the DEB-5 based grammar
- Need a way to map between the RDF and tag value and between tag value and RDF
Gary's slides for tools to be made available¶
- Can the pretty printer output tag-value
- Concern about not having a formal parser for the tag-value - could lead to bugs if hand-coded emitter for the tag-value
- Gary agreed to prototype a tag-value emitter
- Gary will ping Kate for the current Spreadsheet format
- For contribution/feedback switch from emailing spdx.org to use bugzilla
- Mention that in the spec there will be a grammar and an RDF OWL document
recap / status of inclusion of new license fields¶
- An asserted license field seems to have achieved consensus
- Proposal to split the license field into asserted license, "detected" or "seen" license, and a comment field
- Will continue the proposal process on the spdx-tech mailing list and in bugzilla