Thanks to Anna for sharing he GSOC work.
General Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06 < General Meeting<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting> | Minutes<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes> * Attendance: 12 * Lead by Phil Odence * Minutes of June meeting approved Contents [hide<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06>] * 1 Guest Presentation - Anna Buhman<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06#Guest_Presentation_-_Anna_Buhman> * 2 Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06#Tech_Team_Report_-_Kate.2FGary> * 3 Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06#Legal_Team_Report_-_Jilayne.2FPaul> * 4 Outreach Team Report - Jack<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06#Outreach_Team_Report_-_Jack> * 5 Attendees<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06#Attendees> Guest Presentation - Anna Buhman[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06&action=edit§ion=1>] * Goals: Integrate GitHub with SPDX * Auto Generation * And kept up to date * Therefore easier to use * Uses * Repo admin sets up * Or non admin or someone outside could generate as well * Perhaps on a portion of the code * How it works * Scans using an open source scanner with every change * Creates doc and a pull request for updated doc which human must approve * anticipates needing some human modifications * Above is working today * Future modifications * Rather than replacing, combing with old version to retain human mods * Email notification of new docs * User-selectable license scanner * Project comments * Learning lots about different kinds of software * Example, learning about controlling GitHub with Python code * SPDX seemed very complicated at first * But understanding licensing she understands the requirements * Work so far is on GitHub in the SPDX area; Wiki too * Questions: * How to keep from overwriting human modifications? * Compare section by section and default to original giving a human the choice * When will a demo be available? * Maybe on a future call Tech Team Report - Kate/Gary[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06&action=edit§ion=2>] * Spec source is now on GitHub, versioned, etc, * Big thanks to Thomas Steenbergen * Working out permissions/process modifications * Looking at how to link to from spdx.org * Have been working through the topics for the next rev * Tooling * Summer of Code students have been giving updates * Gitter account set up wth lots of good conversations * Great progress overall Legal Team Report - Jilayne/Paul[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06&action=edit§ion=3>] * Good last few calls * XML Format * Gary set up a we to view previews * Down to last few files * Discussion about Linus’ note about GPL * Linus tried to clarify what it applied to our not * explicit about user space not subject to being a derivative work * Not calling it a license exception, per se, but will likely be treated as we treat exceptions * Not a clear way to represent; working on that now * There had been two versions, but that was cleaned up * Some chatter on mailing list about how we identify “only” as in GPL 2.0 Only * Problem: We are explicit about “or later” but not about “only” * Working with FSF who would prefer: GPL-2.0-Only * Considering modifications to the expression language Outreach Team Report - Jack[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06&action=edit§ion=4>] * Michael working on umbrella project page for Git * Idea is to be an SPDX home for developers * Working on a write up of goals for tools etc. * Kate working on it. Attendees[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-07-06&action=edit§ion=5>] * Phil Odence, Black Duck * Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation * Jack Manbeck, TI * Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor * Anna Buhman, UNO * Paul Madick, Dimension Data * Michael Herzog- nexB * Thomas Steenbergen, HERE * Bradlee Edmondson, Harvard * Jilayne Lovejoy, ARM * Robin Gandhi, UNO * Georg Link, UNO
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