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Aug 13, 2015

SPDX Tool bake off and Talks at LinuxCon 2015 North America

There will be an SPDX tools bake-off for the 2.0 specification on Monday the 17th. Here are the details and feel free to drop by: Virginia Room (located on the 4th floor, Union St side of hotel) 9:00am - 1:00pm Our own Gary O'Neall, tools maintaner for SPDX, is giving…

May 13, 2015

This is a milestone day for SPDX, the release of Version 2.0. This release is a great step forward and greatly expands the utility and applicability of the spec

SPDX 2.0 brings with it a number of features, but the ability to represent relationships and hierarchy is the biggest enhancement. We starting planning in earnest for this capability and 2.0 in 2012, but actually had considered building hierarchy into the original 1.0 work. Early on decided it was too…

Feb 13, 2015

SPDX Talk at FOSSDEM 2015

Our own Jilayne Lovejoy, Co-Chair for the legal team, gave a talk at FOSSDEM earlier this year on SPDX. Her talk was entitled "Debunking the Myths and Misunderstandings". Take a look, you might learn something new!

Apr 1, 2014

Open Collaboration Changes Everything…including SPDX

Submitted by Phil Odence on April 1st, 2014 The theme of the Linux Collaboration Summit was: Open collaboration changes everything. (You would know this if you saw the back of my new hoodie.) It will sound sappy, but I was never prouder to be associated with SPDX as I was…

Jan 2, 2014

Ring in the new

Submitted by Phil Odence on January 2nd, 2014 If I’d gotten to this a few days ago, I might be looking back on an eventful year, but here we are in 2014 looking forward. And, actually, it turns out we did some good reflecting in the blog I posted in November.…