and here is the link to that announcement that I forgot to include before: https://www.finos.org/blog/announcing-the-open-source-license-compliance-handbook
;) Jilayne > On Mar 12, 2019, at 12:18 PM, J Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi SPDX folks (legal and general list), > > I want to tell you about a project I’ve been working on with Aaron Williamson > and the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) that I think many of you may > be interested in. > > FINOS has announced the initial release of the Open Source License Compliance > Handbook. The Handbook is itself an open source project, available on Github. > It consists of: > Structured compliance data about open source licenses, stored in a simple > YAML format for easy consumption by machines and lawyers alike (licensed > CC-BY-SA-4.0), > A Python script to compile the license entries and introductory material into > an asciidoc-formatted markup document (licensed Apache 2.0), and > "Binaries" of the document in docx and PDF formats (as well as an > intermediate DocBook version) (CC-BY-SA-4.0). > We're excited to get this resource into the hands of the community and get > your input and contributions, as well as ideas on the potential to integrate > this into all the great open source tooling that is out there. Aaron and I > recognize that there's always the potential for ruffled feathers at efforts > to "summarize" licenses and I have no doubt some of our efforts are > imperfect. But the Handbook is meant for a particular purpose -- not to > exhaustively summarize licenses or address every GPL corner case, but to help > developers and compliance professionals address the most common requirements > in the most common use cases. > > Please take a look, file an issue, or submit a pull request :) (Be warned, > FINOS requires signing a dreaded CLA first!) > > Thanks, > Jilayne > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1230): https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/1230 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/30405444/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/leave/2655439/1698928721/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
