News & Announcements
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…
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…
