The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package.

Announcing SPDX Version 1.1

The SPDX workgroup recently announced the release of version 1.1 of its Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX(TM)) standard, which includes new features and an expanded list of licenses that is being adopted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and other organizations.

These updates further reduce redundant work by providing a common format for companies and communities to share important data about software license and copyrights, thereby streamlining and improving compliance.

Recent News

From the SPDX Workgroup

Our New Website

April 5th, 2013

We have a new website! As you can probably tell the website has undergone a complete revamp. We think it looks great and will be much more useful to the SPDX community.  As a short summary of changes:

Workgroups have a new Wiki

April 5th, 2013

Thanks to the Linux Foundation our workgroups (Technical, Legal, Business and General) now have a new and completely separate media wiki. With a media wiki you will find we are also able to do much more than we could with the older Drupal Wiki Plug-in.

 To access the wiki go here and set up an account: http://wiki.spdx.org/ . Anyone can read the wiki but to contribute you will need an account.

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Events

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The SPDX Specification

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SPDX Version 1.1

Version 1.1 of the SPDX spec is the current active specification.
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SPDX Tools

Implement SPDX in your organization

RDF To Tag Translator

Converts SPDX in RDF format to Tag Value format

Tag To RDF Translator

Converts an SPDX in Tag/Value format to RDF

RDF to HTML Pretty Printer

Creates an HTML page from a SPDX RDF Document

License RDFa Generator

Create a set of HTML files

SPDX Compare Utility

Comares two SPDX RDF documents

SPDX Viewer

A command line driven Java application that formats a valid SPDX RDF document.
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