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General Meeting/Minutes/2016-03-05
< General Meeting‎ | Minutes
Attendance: 12
Lead by Phil Odence
Minutes of Feb meeting approved
Contents
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1 Special Guest Star - Camille Moulin, Inno3
2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary
3 Outreach Team Report - Jack
4 Legal Team Report - Jilayne
5 Cross Functional Topics - Phil
6 Attendees
Special Guest Star - Camille Moulin, Inno3[edit]
SPDX license list and expressions
Most dependency management solutions include licensing info
So you can extract and process the information
Most clients aren’t using this approach, rather they use scanners like Black 
Duck, Palamida, Protecode
The dependency manager approach
This approach is not as accurate as code scanners
No information at the sub level package
Depends on quality metadata
Metadata quality
30% of all packages have no license data
SPDX Maturity
Still a young project
License expressions were a key addition
Need to be clear on license version numbers
SPDX is already adopted by most package manager, particularly newer ones
Some useful tools are available
Q&A
What improvements in SPDX are required?
He suggest separating License name from version number as separate attributes
Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit]
Specification Update:
meetings over last month spent continuing to refine the External Reference 
proposal from Bill and Yev.
Its been refactored a couple of couple of time, and active discussion is 
ongoing.
Introduced Draft version of Appendix on how to specify 
"SPDX-License-Expression:" in file comments.
Summarized information on WIKI and input received from mail list. Team wants to 
make sure wording
at top makes it clear that if a license has a standard header, that header 
should be used.
Tools Update:
None this month
Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit]
Website
Still waiting on LF to update
Webinars
Just starting a regular series of Webinars
Jilayne was “volunteered” talk about the license list as the initial one
Talking to LF about hosting
Legal Team Report - Jilayne[edit]
Big Update: Templates Rehab
Have reviewed guidelines and mark-up method and implementation
Guidelines were human-friendly, not machine
Fairly major overhaul back end
Much better handling of single source than was possible with spreadsheet
Better for machines
Enabling others to contribute
Easier to maintain
OSI
Have synced up our new license process
Our heads up had been coming late, after their URLs were set up
Now we can pick short ID first
Cross Functional Topics - Phil[edit]
Collab meeting: Walk through of the 2.1 SPEC changes in a combined document. 
All Day Wednesday
Thursday
Morning OpenChain- Trying to wrap up specification effort
Afternoon- FOSSology- Working through what’s working/what’s not and 
infrastructure
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/program/about
Google SoC
SPDX along was not accepted 
LF was, so we may be able to piggyback
Attendees[edit]
Phil Odence, Black Duck
Yev Bronshteyn, Black Duck
Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
Pierre LaPointe, nexB 
Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM
Kirsten Newcomer, Black Duck
Mark Gisi, Wind River 
Michael Herzog- nexB
Dave Marr, Qualcomm
Jack Manbeck, TI
Camille Moulin, Inno3
Scott Sterling, Palamida

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