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Jul 31, 2017

SPDX Could Help Organizations Better Manage Their Thickets of Open Source Licenses

This is a great article on SPDX and answers a lot of common questions people have: "SPDX Could Help Organizations Better Manage Their Thickets of Open Source Licenses", by Swapnil Bhartiya.

Jan 31, 2017

Move to GitHub Complete for Tools

Our transition of the Tools repositories from the Linux Foundation to GitHhub is now complete. You may start using the repos there.

Jan 11, 2017

SPDX meeting at the Leadership Conference, 16 February 2017

SPDX will be meeting at the Linux Foundation 2017 Leadership Summit, being held 14-16 Februrary 2017. Information on the summit including hotels, travel and so forth is located here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-leadership-summit . This is the proposed Agenda. It is subject to change as we work the final few details out. We are…

Jan 6, 2017

SPDX Tools moving to GitHub

On Jan. 29, we will be moving the primary repository for the SPDX tools and License List from git.spdx.org over to github.com/spdx.  this change will allow us to take better advantage of many github collaboration tools and will reduce the effort in maintaining the SPDX tools. This will not have…

Sep 26, 2016

SPDX Plugfest at LinuxCon Europe 6 October 2016

The SPDX tech team will be hosting an SPDX Tools BakeOff at LinuxCon Europe on 6 October 2016. Particpation can be remote by phone or in person. The Bake-off (aka Plugfest) will focus on comparing SPDX Documents generated with SPDX specification 2.1 featues along with any questions people may have. For more information and how…