I would like to a topic for next week's tech team call: Standardizing the license XML format
Background: The legal team has been working on changing from a spreadsheet + text file format for the licenses to an XML format. I was on this week's legal call and agreed to take this topic to the tech team. There are two drivers for this change: - Allow for greater collaboration and contributions to the license list by changing from a single spreadsheet to multiple XML files which are under git repository control - Create an XML format for licenses for better and more reliable tooling There are 2 phases to the implementation. The first phase is focused on the collaboration goal and the XML format will be used internally by the legal team and is not intended for external tooling. The second phase is to standardize the XML format. Proposal: Include the standard for the license XML format in the 2.2 version of the SPDX specification. Proposed plan: 1. Update the tag names used in the XML format to be consistent with the current specification (see the Google Doc Reference below). 2. Document the XML format in the specification appendix and on the website or wiki Reference: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Templatizing/tags-matching http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Templatizing/ActionPlan One of the discussion points will be the names for the XML elements and attributes. I started a table in Google Docs to compare the current terms used in the XML document to similar terms we are using in the spec: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z9n44xLH2MxT576KS_AbTOBtecyl5cw6RsrrQHib Qtg/edit?usp=sharing Kris, who has been driving the XML format change with the legal team, will be available for the call next week. Let me know if anyone disagrees with this being on the agenda next week and if you have any questions or additional input. Thanks, Gary ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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