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Feb 7, 2019

SPDX Meeting at LF Leadership Summit March 11, 2019

SPDX will be meeting prior to the start of the Linux Foundation Open Source Leadership Summit. You can view the details of the summit here. Anyone is welcome to join us. The primary agenda will be planning for 2019. SPDX Meeting Details: Location: Cabrillo Room, Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay Dates &…

Feb 1, 2019

Technical team using Gitter

The Technical team is now using gitter as a discussion area for SPDX coding projects. While it is primarily technical, anyone interested in the project definitions or implementation is welcome to join. https://gitter.im/spdx-org/Lobby

Apr 17, 2018

Automating Compliance

This talk was given at the Open Source Leadership Summit on March 7th, 2018 by Kate Stewart (SPDX Technical Team Lead), Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Kernel Developer), and  Philippe Ombredanne (Aboutcode.org Maintainer).  It discusses efforts to help automate license identification, where open source tools are out and some of the challenges around this…

Apr 12, 2018

The FOSSology Project: 10 Years Of License Scanning

Great article in the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. Talks about Fossology, license scanning and SPDX.

Jan 5, 2018

License List 3.0 Released!

by Jilayne Lovejoy, Legal team Co-Chair On December 28th, 2017, version 3.0 of the SPDX License List was released. This marks the achievement of several significant milestones for the project and represents over a year’s worth of work by members of both the legal and tech teams. Below is a…