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.
View ArticleLinux 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...
View ArticleLicense 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...
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleSPDX 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...
View ArticleLinux Foundation Supply Chain Townhall
The Linux Foundation will be hosting a supply chain townhall virtually on August 18, 2021. View this link for details: Linux Foundation Town Hall
View ArticleSPDX Specification is now an ISO Standard
After much hard work and anticipation, we are proud to announce that the SPDX Specification is now an ISO Standard! We want to thank everyone who helped make this happen. This represents a significant...
View ArticleWhy you should use SPDX for security
Phil Odence, the Chair for SPDX, has written a very informative article on why you should use SPDX for Security and even goes onto to address some of the common Myths around SPDX. It was published on...
View ArticleGitHub Creating SBOMs using SPDX
Looks like GitHub has a self service option to create SBOMs for a GitHub Project based on SPDX! See this blog from them.
View ArticleSPDX Announces 3.0 Release Candidate with New Use Cases
VANCOUVER, May 8, 2023 – We are delighted to announce the release of the SPDX 3.0 Release Candidate, the first in a series of releases that will lead to the general availability of SPDX 3.0. This is a...
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