Jilayne Lovejoy

Companies who use and contribute to free and open source often have internal advocates who make policy decisions, help with tooling recommendations, and teach others about the importance of free and open source. Different offices and departments will often have differences in the ways they are managing using, contributing to, and releasing free and open source software.

The panel will explore the different approaches companies have to this work.

Other people: Richard Fontana Carol Smith Max Sills

The SPDX specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses, and copyrights associated with a software package. Despite that relatively simple explanation, myths and misunderstandings seem to abound as to what SPDX does and does not do; whom benefits from SPDX and how; and more. This talk will address some of the commonly heard myths and misunderstandings.

This talk will also describe the key changes accompanying the upcoming official release of SPDX 2.0.