Hi, Have just finished setting up a #spdx IRC channel on freenode, to be used for ongoing SPDX project communication and collaboration. Was just going to send this to the tech list, but realized its m

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I would like to contribute to the open source community ..I have majorly worked on backend on 2 college sponsored projects and working currently on a project by Government Organization. I have fair kn

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Hi Varshak, Welcome! Glad you're interested in participating in our community. I am copying the spdx-tech mail list where we discuss the GSoC efforts. Ideas we've come up with so far are listed on: ht

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Hey Can i know which languages are used in backend of spdx?

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Sure. Were just now starting the process of applying to Google for their Summer of Code 2019. If we do get awarded slots there is a specific process you must follow. I suggest you get signed up with t

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In addition to Java, we have quite a few tools written in Python. We just added libraries written in go. Gary

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Hello! My name is Belen Guaranda. I am an undergraduate Computer Science student from Ecuador, in my last semester of studies. I am interested in working on the project "Develop a Distributed License

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Hi Belen, Welcome to SPDX, We are glad you find our project idea interesting. Join the developers community on gitter at https://gitter.im/spdx-org/Lobby to discuss your ideas and questions. Best rega

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Hi All, We have requirement to specify End Of Life as part of package information in SBoM , Is there way current SPDX format support this ? Regards Sandeep

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Hi Sandeep, There is a pull request expected shortly from the Usage profile team, to add this specific field to 2.3. When it comes in, please feel free to review and make sure it's going to suffice fo

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Kate and Sandeep, Our customers are also interested in this information. There are two concepts to consider: Commercial Status: <enumeration value="Available"></enumeration> <enumeration value="Retire

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Hi , I have query regarding SPDXID , Can this be expressed along with CPE or pURL something like "SPDXRef-[cpe id]" or "SPDXRef-[pURL]" Any further guidance on this will help. Regards Sandeep

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Hi , Is there any document reference which can be used to see mapping between SPDX tags and NTIA Minimum elements ? Some element names can be easily confused , something like "Author of SBOM Data" in

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NTIA Framing document has the mapping you seek: see page 13 https://www.ntia.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_sbom_framing_2nd_edition_20211021.pdf However the “EO 14028 NTIA min element list is a lit

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Thanks you Dick, This is useful

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You’re welcome. You will most likely need SPDX V2.3 if you have any “FILE” components that need to specify version info. The new PackagePurpose field supports the version info for “FILE” artifacts. Th

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This is how Microsoft has approached this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/generating-software-bills-of-materials-sboms-with-spdx-at-microsoft/ The one thing I’d add is that ad

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Hi Sandeep – Moving the conversation over to the SPDX-tech mailing list. Unfortunately, adding in a CPE ID or pURL would include characters disallowed in the SPDX ID. Fortunately, there is a way to ex

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Hi Gary, Thanks for reply, then SPDXID will be mostly internal ID and can not be referenced externally, Do you think this might need some change in SPDXID documentation statement ? "Uniquely identify

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Hi Sandeep, Although the SPDX ID is internal to SPDX documents, you can refer to an SPDX ID in a different document using the SPDX Document identifier as defined in section 6.6. So the statement below

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