News & Announcements
Nov 28, 2020
License List v3.11 released
The version 3.11 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. This release included a smaller number of new licenses than some of the recent prior releases, as much of this release cycle has seen a greater focus on the "licensing profile" updates for the main…
Sep 16, 2020
SPDX Tools have a new Home
Greetings to the community, We are excited about the hosting of the SPDX tools on a more robust and hopefully permanent platform. A new URL for the SPDX online tools is now be available at https://tools.spdx.org. We want to thank everyone for using the tools and providing us with valuable…
Sep 16, 2020
SPDX Specification submitted to ISO
On August 20th, the Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) specification was submitted to ISO for consideration as a Publicly Available Specification. The Joint Development Foundation (which is part of the Linux Foundation) submitted the specification to JTC1 for balloting. We are now awaiting feedback from the coordinators, and hope to see it…
Aug 3, 2020
License List v3.10 released
The version 3.10 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. This release included (as you'll see below) a number of different variants on existing licenses, as well as a handful of new ones. In addition to the new license entries and various cleanup, this release…
May 15, 2020
License List v3.9 released
The version 3.9 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. Along with the usual assortment of documentation updates and markup tweaks, this is the first release with the updated license inclusion principles. 16 new licenses and exceptions were added to the list: CAL-1.0CAL-1.0-Combined-Work-ExceptionCERN-OHL-P-2.0CERN-OHL-S-2.0CERN-OHL-W-2.0Hippocratic-2.1LGPL-3.0-linking-exceptionMulanPSL-2.0NCGL-UK-2.0O-UDA-1.0OGC-1.0Parity-7.0.0PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0SHL-2.0SHL-2.1 More details…
