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L. Philip Odence
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General Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05
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  *   Attendance: 11
  *   Lead by Phil Odence
  *   Minutes of Sept meeting approved

Contents
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  *   1 Guest Presentation - Alexander 
Lisianoi<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05#Guest_Presentation_-_Alexander_Lisianoi>
  *   2 Tech Team Report - 
Kate/Gary<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05#Tech_Team_Report_-_Kate.2FGary>
  *   3 Legal Team Report - 
Jilayne/Paul<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05#Legal_Team_Report_-_Jilayne.2FPaul>
  *   4 Outreach Team Report - 
Jack<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05#Outreach_Team_Report_-_Jack>
  *   5 
Attendees<https://wiki.spdx.org/view/General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05#Attendees>
Guest Presentation - Alexander 
Lisianoi[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05&action=edit&section=1>]

  *   Background
     *   Working on masters in Technical University of Vienna
  *   Project
     *   Turning Python Code into Javascript
        *   Pooling PY and License expression
        *   Libraries that are self contained
        *   Initially looked easy
     *   Results
        *   It works!
     *   How it went
        *   Long list of tools available, so choosing a tool is the first step
           *   Brython, Batavia, Transcript
           *   Brython can read in pure Python
           *   Bytavia uses Python byte code
           *   Transcript actually translates to javacode, so he picked that one
              *   Downside is that it doesn’t handle every Python capability
        *   Encountered a lot of bizarre results
           *   And complained a fair amount
           *   Tricky to know what goes wrong; have to debug both in parallel
           *   Errors can be subtle
           *   How things are compared differs between languages
     *   The resulting tool
        *   You can parse, but it can be broken
     *   Value of the work
        *   Javascript is very commonly used for front ends these days
        *   You don’t want to have to support two technologies for front and 
back end
        *   This allows leveraging the backend scripts for building front end
        *   Valuable to tool developers using JS and to development communities
        *   As a side-effect of the work, we Alexander helped
Tech Team Report - 
Kate/Gary[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05&action=edit&section=2>]

  *   Spec
     *   All on GItHub now
  *   Last few meetings have been focused on
     *   FSF proposal
        *   Supporting legal team on expanding license expression language
     *   Testing work from Jack
        *   Tool testing cases
           *   Scanners for locating license language
           *   License language matchers (using matching guidelines)
        *   Also testing license list generator
           *   Which requires test cases as well
        *   Looking at creating a repo for all test cases
           *   Two tool types
           *   License list gen
        *   Will be community based so folks can contribute cases
  *   Preview
     *   Looks like there will be a new tool contribution from an LF member
     *   A tool to create a summary
        *   Input SPDX tag value; output easy to read/intrerpret format

  *   LinuxCon Europe
     *   There will be a meeting for those creating tools
     *   New testing work with be on the agenda

Legal Team Report - 
Jilayne/Paul[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05&action=edit&section=3>]

  *   FSF Proposal
     *   For how the GPL version is represented
     *   Questions about new operators, default
     *   Generated a large meeting with tech folks
        *   Lively discussion
        *   Did not reach resolution
     *   FSF has come back with another proposal
        *   Technical challenges
        *   Difference of opinion, particularly for case where
        *   Part of the issue is that FSF is focused on just the identifiers 
vs. how we use with SPDX
           *   License does not specify “or later” or “only”
           *   How do we represent without representing legal judgment
           *   Fundamentally there are different opinions on what it means when 
there is no specification
           *   Very important to FSF (including Richard Stallman)
Outreach Team Report - 
Jack[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05&action=edit&section=4>]

  *   Mostly license test file work as described above

Attendees[edit<https://wiki.spdx.org/index.php?title=General_Meeting/Minutes/2017-10-05&action=edit&section=5>]

  *   Phil Odence, Black Duck
  *   Kate Stewart, Linux Foundation
  *   Alexander Lisianoi, Technical University of Vienna
  *   Matthew Crawford, ARM
  *   Matija Suklje, FSFE
  *   Steve Winslow, Linux Foundation
  *   Mike Dolan, Linux Foundation
  *   Jack Manbeck, TI
  *   Michael Herzog- nexB
  *   Gary O’Neall, SourceAuditor
  *   Paul Madick, Dimension Data

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