Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-06 Thread Rob Guinness
Ok, thanks, Steve. I will try to help out. I have a bit of difficulty to participate in the calls due to my time zone, but I will also try to join those when possible. Cheers, Rob On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, at 3:36 PM, Steve Winslow wrote: > Hi Rob, anyone who is interested is welcome to

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-06 Thread Steve Winslow
Hi Rob, anyone who is interested is welcome to participate. On the legal team biweekly calls we typically have a mix of attorneys as well as software engineers who are interested in FOSS licensing. The sorts of questions we look at when reviewing a new submission are things like: Does it meet the

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-06 Thread Rob Guinness
Hi all, Quick question: What type of expertise is needed to participate in the license review process? Kind regards, Rob Guinness FOSSID On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Steve Winslow wrote: > Hi all, echoing Phil's comments -- several people have indicated interest in > increasing the

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-06 Thread Steve Winslow
Hi all, echoing Phil's comments -- several people have indicated interest in increasing the velocity of adding new licenses to the license list. I'd encourage anyone who shares this goal to participate in reviewing and commenting on requests and issues, and creating/reviewing the license XML

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-04 Thread Phil Odence
One consideration in this discussion is the practical limits of the legal team’s capacity. Adding a new license on the list requires a chunk of work and every license on the list adds incrementally to the maintenance burden over time. There’s been some great work done to putting

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-04 Thread Rob Guinness
Hi all, I realize I am new to this group, but I just to add my two cents: We are using the SPDX License List within our open source auditing tools, and when a license is not on the SPDX list, we have to define our own license identifier, etc. This can lead to incompatibility with other tools

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-03 Thread Kyle Mitchell
On 2019-06-03 20:06, David A. Wheeler wrote: > Phil Odence: > > And, also, bear in mind that SPDX can handle any > > license. Worst case, you identify a local license > > identifier and include the license. The goal of the > > license list is to minimize the need to do that, but at > > the same

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-03 Thread David A. Wheeler
Phil Odence: > And, also, bear in mind that SPDX can handle any license. Worst case, you > identify a local license identifier and include the license. The goal of the > license list is to minimize the need to do that, but at the same time, this > keeps the list from being a constraint. For

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-03 Thread Phil Odence
legal@lists.spdx.org" on behalf of Alexios Zavras Date: Monday, June 3, 2019 at 5:48 AM To: "pode...@synopsys.com" Cc: "spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org" Subject: Re: meeting minutes from today I want to point out that with the adoption of license namespaces a large number of such

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-03 Thread Alexios Zavras
: Re: meeting minutes from today I agree we should err on the inclusive side. In concept, I think the driver should be popularity more than OSS definition. It’s better for users to include commonly used open source-like license. JSON and WTFPL (maybe this complies, but it’s not on the OSI list

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-06-01 Thread Matija ?uklje
Die 1. 06. 19 et hora 00:58 Dave Marr scripsit: > +1 > > SPDX is only pragmatically useful to me if it generally reflects > the licenses I’m likely to encounter when vetting community > software. I agree. Although the question still remains what constitutes a popular license – does a non-FOSS

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-05-31 Thread Dave Marr
: Re: meeting minutes from today CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. I agree we should err on the inclusive side. In concept, I think the driver should be popularity more than OSS definition. It’s better for users to include commonly used open source-like license. JSON

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-05-31 Thread Phil Odence
x.org" on behalf of "mdo...@linuxfoundation.org" Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 3:44 PM To: Jilayne Lovejoy Cc: "spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org" Subject: Re: meeting minutes from today On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:23 PM J Lovejoy mailto:opensou...@jilayne.com>> wrote: 3)

Re: meeting minutes from today

2019-05-30 Thread Michael Dolan
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:23 PM J Lovejoy wrote: > > 3) Need more feedback on documentation updates - see email sent earlier > this week, comment on PRs in Github > >- discussed licenses that aren't squarely open source and variations >on how far fall out and how to deal with this

meeting minutes from today

2019-05-30 Thread J Lovejoy
cut and pasting them here, instead of sending a link - maybe that will stir some energy around the last statement in particular… ;) Attendees[edit ] John Horan Jilayne Lovejoy Mark Atwood Gary O’Neall Steve Winslow Jim

meeting minutes from today posted

2018-03-22 Thread J Lovejoy
https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2018-03-22 Note: our meeting minutes may end being a bit briefer, as we are moving to looking at PRs and Issues in Github repo and resolving what we can on the call. I’ve tried (and will

Re: meeting minutes from today posted

2018-01-19 Thread Kate Stewart
Hi Dennis, We had a discussion about the monday SPDX meeting off-line this week, and there's not going to be critical mass for it on monday, so we'll just be having the breakout meetings on Friday. That being said, figuring out the agenda definitely needs to be sorted out for Friday. :-)

Re: meeting minutes from today posted

2018-01-19 Thread Dennis Clark
Hi Jilayne, SPDX-legal, Please reserve a little time at our next Legal group meeting on January 25 2018 to discuss planning for the Open Source Leadership Summit 2018. In particular, I would like to confirm that there will be SPDX meetings on Monday March 5 in addition to the general attendance

meeting minutes from today posted

2018-01-11 Thread J Lovejoy
Hi all, We had a small gathering today, but still managed to talk through some good stuff. Meeting minutes posted here: https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2018-01-11 If you missed the invite, our next meeting will be two

meeting minutes from today

2016-09-29 Thread J Lovejoy
are posted here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2016-09-29 SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com ___ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org

meeting minutes from today

2016-07-21 Thread J Lovejoy
Please see the meeting minutes from today at: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2016-07-21 <http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2016-07-21> Note that we have added some timelines for the XML license list conversation project. Thanks, Jilayne SPDX Legal Team c

meeting minutes for today

2016-06-23 Thread J Lovejoy
have been posted here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2016-06-23 Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com ___ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org

meeting minutes from today

2016-03-19 Thread J Lovejoy
are posted here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2016-03-17 Please note some changes for upcoming meetings due to Collab Summit, etc.: No meeting Thursday, March 31 (due to Collab Summit) Re-schedule special meeting time on

meeting minutes from today have been posted

2016-02-18 Thread J Lovejoy
here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2016-02-18 Please note, Collab Summit is coming up in late March - we have a room for SPDX work for the entire second day and will be working on review of the v2.1 spec and the license

meeting minutes from today

2014-10-30 Thread J Lovejoy
Are now posted here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2014-10-30 Note, we’ll continue to use this format for the next couple meetings and remove items completely once those items are DONE. Action items (for the most part) in all caps. Thanks, Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead

meeting minutes from today posted

2014-07-24 Thread J Lovejoy
It was a small, but effective group today :) And Welcome to newcomer, James Robert. http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2014-07-24 Cheers, Jilayne Lovejoy and Paul Madick SPDX Legal Team co-leads ___ Spdx-legal mailing list