Re: New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:47 AM, J Lovejoy wrote: > ok, great, that’s what we merged already. done :) > > On Mar 22, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Dennis Clark wrote: > > I think Linux-OpenIB is a perfect short identifier for this license. > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018

Proposal for a new project idea for GSoC - request quick response from legal and tech teams

Background: The GSoC project idea Add New License Submittal Feature to Online Tool is quite popular with students - at least 4 proposals are in progress for this one project. Since we can only

3.1 release

Hi all, I’m trying to get things nailed down for Gary to do the 3.1 release by end of next week. A few outstanding things that could go either way (resolved now via email and included / or pushed to 3.2) - can I please get some input on these: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pull/551

Re: PRs v. Issues for new licenses/exceptions

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 01:54:01PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote: > Its currently just asking for an email on > https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license I think the canonical docs should be in-repo [1] and that external docs should link there. Folks are unlikely to create an issue/PR

Re: PRs v. Issues for new licenses/exceptions

Agreed. :-) As part of the process discussions next meeting, can we make sure we document this and update the web pages to reflect how the process should work. Its currently just asking for an email on https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license Thanks, Kate On Thu, Mar 22, 2018

Re: New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

ok, great, that’s what we merged already. done :) > On Mar 22, 2018, at 12:21 PM, Dennis Clark wrote: > > I think Linux-OpenIB is a perfect short identifier for this license. > > Regards, > Dennis > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:15 AM, J Lovejoy

PRs v. Issues for new licenses/exceptions

Hi all, We are ending up with an Issue and a PR for the same new license/exception requests. I think a PR is sufficient, but there are going to be times where a request starts with an Issue due to the person making the request not feeling comfortable creating the XML file. I think this is

Re: New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Kate: > > Thank you for this excellent background and research! > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Kate Stewart > wrote: > > > Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or

Re: New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

oh crikey, naming is so hard! the rationale for using “Linux-OpenIB” was to differentiate from the reality that OpenIB.org uses the real and full matching BSD-2-Clause - so some kind of such differentiation is good. Happy to add references to other examples in the Notes

Re: New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

Kate: Thank you for this excellent background and research! On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Kate Stewart wrote: > Provide a proposed Full Name for the license or exception > > Linux Kernel Variant of OpenIB.org license > > Provide a proposed Short Identifier. > >

meeting minutes from today posted

https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2018-03-22 Note: our meeting minutes may end being a bit briefer, as we are moving to looking at PRs and Issues in Github repo and resolving what we can on the call. I’ve tried (and will

Re: New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

This was moved to github https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/620 On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Kate Stewart wrote: > > *Background:In 2004 an industry association called Open Infiniband or > "OpenIB" was founded to consolidate and upstream into

meeting soon!

the usual dial-in as found here: http://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team Agenda: 1) update from OSLS meeting 2) 3.1 release - review new license requests 3) Google Summer of Code request talk soon! Jilayne SPDX Legal Team co-lead opensou...@jilayne.com

New License Request: Linux-OpenIB

*Background:In 2004 an industry association called Open Infiniband or "OpenIB" was founded to consolidate and upstream into Linux what is today drivers/infiniband.That group of companies mutually agreed to use a "dual GPL and BSD license" scheme and the membership agreement obligated the member