Jilayne Lovejoy

potential updates to license submission tool

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some ideas, for further discussion: - remove question re: OSI review/approval - update or add info re: license steward name/author

historical explanations

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we tracked the history of the license inclusion guidelines when we updated those, but what other topics would it be beneficial to have some kind of historical explanation of?? Here...

- [x] remove / add note or new link re: anything that is out of date (e.g., meeting times, meeting minutes - [ ] review what's there in terms of...

documentation: short identifier field - add bullet about "exception"

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discussed on legal call 4/28 - @karsten-klein asked about short ids for exceptions. We looked at descriptions of short names at https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/license-fields.md and it doesn't mention this. We should probably...

Update License-fields.md

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fixes #1451

Review License Expression annex

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any updates needed? review for improvements on easier reading/understandability

document regular expression examples

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example with GCC exception where could be "give(s)?" or "give|gives" to get same outcome might be good to have list of example of markup with explanation on where used (instead...

update definition / guidelines for exceptions

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this was discussed on Nov 29th, 2018 (as well as other times here and there) - https://wiki.spdx.org/view/Legal_Team/Minutes/2018-11-29 Definition is: "These exceptions grant an exception to a license condition or additional...

Update FAQs

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Review and update FAQs in markdown Update link on webpage to direct here

Improve appearance of SPDX License List landing page

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could we improve the top of the pages at https://spdx.org/licenses/ and https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html to have a more graphical appearance instead of a block of bullets - maybe a tile for each...