Hi everyone! As every year, Google runs their Summer of Code program, where contributors get the opportunity to become part of Open Source communities. The SPDX Project has participated in the program

As I've been following the issue queue for github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues over the past several months, it seems to me that you get a significant number of license submissions like this lates

Sorry for the short notice reminder. Given the end of the month and next release time frame is rapidly approaching, we’ll focus today’s meeting on divvying up work to get licenses added. I also want t

Hi: If you drop by FOSDEM, there is this one day event before FOSDEM, on Feb. 3rd 2023, in Brussels. https://opencollective.com/aboutcode/events/fosdem-2023-fringe-event-foss-license-and-security-comp

I just finished publishing a new version of the SPDX online tools. It solves a couple of issues with the license submission utility and upgrades the NTIA Conformance Checker with an improved version.

Hi all, This is a reminder that Thursday, Jan 12th at the regular legal-team call time, we will have a joint call for the tech and legal teams to discuss the change proposal: https://github.com/spdx/c

SPDX Legal Team - 4th Thursdays 2023 https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting WhenMonthly from 12pm to 1pm on the fourth Thursday from Thursday Jan 26 to Monday Jan 1,

SPDX Legal Team - 2nd Thursdays 2023 https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting https://meet.jit.si/SPDXLegalMeeting WhenMonthly from 12pm to 1pm on the second Thursday from Thursday Jan 12 to Monday Jan 1,

Dear Spdx-legal community, Improving open source licensing discovery and automating licenses processing are shared aims. From my side,and as first step, I am coming up with a unified description model

Dear all, Recently the SPDX License Diff browser extension has ceased to work for me. Selecting a piece of text and running the plugin displays the 'Processing...' progress bar, but no report is produ

Hi all, As discussed on our last call, we'll have our regularly scheduled meeting Thurs, Dec 22 at noon Eastern US time. We'll use the time to go through the review of a license and how to make a PR f

Dear all, In my organisation, we define all licenses approved by OSI as valid Open Source licenses. However, we also increasingly rely on SPDX and therefore also its license list. Recently, we found s

Hi SPDX legal and tech teams, I’m cross-posting this for wider visibility as some of this impacts both teams: In regard to legal team meetings for the rest of 2022: we will have our regularly schedule

Hi all, Just a reminder of our regular legal team meeting at 9am Pacific time. We'll look at some of the open issues and discuss how to best tackle the many new license submissions we have! See: https

Hi, all- [Starting here, though I realize SPDX cannot be a complete answer to this problem. Also not on spdx-ai because it isn't about AI models/data, but happy to move discussion or cc if that makes

Hello all, The version 3.19 release of the license list is now tagged and live at https://spdx.org/licenses. 5 new licenses / exceptions were added to the list: 1. checkmk 2. FSFULLRWD 3. Knuth-CTAN 4

Hi all, In light of our discussion on our last call about how to make it easier and faster to get licenses reviewed (and adhere to our 3 “votes” from spdx-legal members for a license to be included),

Hi all, We're cancelling the SPDX legal team call for tomorrow, Nov. 24 due to the US holiday. Looking forward to picking up again in December. If you have some spare time and just can't get enough li

Hi Dick, SPDX 2.3 should be supported with yesterday’s update to the online tools. I just verified this with one of the example SPDX files. If you could try again. If it doesn’t work, please submit an

Just FYI – I’m planning to update the software at tools.spdx.org within the next hour or so (around 9AM Pacific time), so the site will be down for just a few minutes if all goes well. Gary ----------