27 Mar 2023 - InnerSource SIG License Working Group Meeting Minutes

[chamindra]

Date

Monday 27 Mar 2023 - 11:00am EST / 4:00pm UK

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Agenda

• [ ] Convene & roll call (5mins)
• [ ] Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
• [ ] Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• [ ] Review and Approve past meeting minutes
  • https://github.com/finos/InnerSource/issues/87
  • https://github.com/finos/InnerSource/issues/86
  • https://github.com/finos/InnerSource/issues/84
• [ ] Discuss Licence generator Integration to Backstage.
  • Introduction to @therobhrt of Vue JS London - Email sent to @chamindra
• [ ] Review independence License generator (using CC code base)
• [ ] Email version of questionnaire for distribution
  • https://github.com/finos-labs/osmm/issues/42
  • https://github.com/finos/finos-marketing/issues/858
    
• [ ] Next steps
• [ ] AOB, Q&A & Adjourn (5mins)

Minutes

• We discussed and reviewed all past Inner Source licensing SIG meeting minutes and they were approved
• Chamindra did a demo of the Creative Common license chooser running in docker modified as a inner source license chooser as a POC of how we can change it for our purpose
• We discussed that that we can use this code also for selecting Open Source licenses for Financial institutions
  • It was discussed that we could integrate this work with Open Source readiness SIG as a license chooser will be valuable for Financial institutions interested in onboarding to Open Source
  • The OSR analysis of licenses can then be integrated with this chooser
  • James and Peter will open a thread on this with OSR SIG
  • We saw an opportunity to reuse the License chooser option to select an Open Source or Inner Source license particularly as the people choosing a license might now be aware of distinction between Inner Source and Open Source.
• The creative commons Chooser is on a MIT license that will allow us to fork the code base
  • James recommend that Chamindra fork the code base and this can then get attached to the FinOS one
  • For contribution James has reached out to the London vue.js community and has a contact that he will put in touch with Chamindra
• It was discussed that the inner source questionaire would best be sent by FInOS
  • James discussed that an email version can be organized to be sent out by FinOS
  • It was discussed if we can integrate this with the Open Source Readiness survey that is provided for onboarding FinOS members
• We discussed how we can integrate this to backstage as well and a discussion needs to take place on the approach
  • It was noted that both backstage and innersource license chooser were based on Javascript/node.js code so there might be a way to integrate the two easily

Action Items

• [ ] Fork creative commons license chooser to github repository - @chamindra
• [ ] Open discussion on creating a common license choose between Inner Source SIG and OSR - @psmulovics @mcleo-d
• [ ] Introduction to vue.js developer - @chamindra
• [ ] Follow up on inner source license questionnaire - @mcleo-d
• [ ] Explore integration with backstage - @capimig @chamindra

Zoom Details

• https://zoom.us/j/94949043746?pwd=WnBFQjhpUnBjMWE0OUhqUGhhb0ZOdz09
• Meeting ID: 949 4904 3746
• Passcode: 067897

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[mcleo-d]

Hello 👋🏻 - James McLeod / FINOS

[chamindra]

Hello 👋

[jaz4th]

Hey there!

[psmulovics]

Peter Smulovics / Morgan Stanley

[hcantave]

Hello Guys ! Hugo Cantave GSHI Inc.

[miguel-capitao-db]

Greetings and salutations

[chamindra]

As discussed I have created a fork of the creative commons license chooser for the purpose of choosing licenses for FinOS Inner Source and Open Source https://github.com/chamindra/finos-license-chooser @mcleo-d