News & Announcements
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…
Dec 12, 2017
Linux Kernel is using SPDX Identifiers
"Observers of the kernel's commit stream or mailing lists will have seen a certain amount of traffic referring to the addition of SPDX license identifiers to kernel source files. For many, this may be their first encounter with SPDX. But the SPDX effort has been going on for some years;…
Nov 22, 2017
SPDX Document One Page Overview
Weeve created a short one (okay it's two) page Overview of an SPDX Document and its fields. It is also posted on the Specifications page and in the Library.
