An open standard describing SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), communicating a release: name, version, components, licenses, copyrights, and useful security references. As a common format, SPDX reduces redundant work related to sharing important release data, thereby streamlining distribution and compliance.
The SPDX specification is a freely available international open standard (ISO/IEC 5692:2021).
SPDX is organized in areas of interest or profiles focused on specific user needs.
Nov 6, 2023
The flexibility of SPDX 3.0 allows users to either link SBOMs to external security vulnerability data or to embed security vulnerability information in the SPDX 3.0 data format, thanks to support for a security-specific profile. This is different from SPDX version 2, which enabled users to link an SBOM to…
Oct 9, 2023
On the surface, profiles are pretty straight forward - they are a way of organizing a specification that covers a broad array of use cases into “profiles” more specific to what a specific producer or consumer of SPDX data may be interested in.
