News & Announcements
Sep 28, 2015
Our own Jilayne Lovejoy will be speaking at LinuxCon Europe
Jilayne will be giving a talk at LinuxCon Europe entitled "Developers Care About the License: Using SPDX to Describe License Information". Adoption of open source software is dependent on being able to communicate license information. With some of the open source packages and distributions containing hundreds of contributions and a wide…
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…
