Technical Team/Minutes/2017-11-07¶
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Nov. 7, 2017
Attendees¶
- Gary O’Neall
- Kate Stewart
- Philippe Ombredanne
SPDX tooling¶
- A lot of work is needed to support the new XML format for the listed licenses
- Issues are listed on the tools github: https://github.com/spdx/tools/issues
- Suggest we update the Wiki to point to the issues
License Contrib Discuss¶
- Discussed having a license contrib. or “license commons” area where different people can contribute licenses which are not yet on the SPDX license list
- Discussed having a subdirectory or repository in github for groups to contribute
- Discussed the meta-data needed
- Agreed that we should use the SPDX document as a way to presenting the license metadata
- Philippe will create a proposal for upcoming tech team
Linux Kernel SPDX ID Patch¶
- Patch(s) were made to add SPDX license ID’s to the Linux Kernel files
- Ongoing work to incorporate the patches
- Some discrepancies between file and module licenses
- Patching module license to match the file level licenses found