THE LINUX FOUNDATION PROJECTS

News & Announcements

Mar 8, 2021

License List v3.12 released

The version 3.12 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. 10 new licenses were added to the list.

Feb 1, 2021

SPDX at FOSSDEM 2021

There are a number of talks and rooms around SPDX at FOSSDEM 2021 February 6 and 7. See the software composition track: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/software_composition/

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…