SPDX License List

The SPDX License List is an integral part of the SPDX Specification. The SPDX License List itself is a list of commonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open or collaborative software, data, hardware, or documentation. The SPDX License List includes a standardized short identifier, the full name, the license text, and a canonical permanent URL for each license and exception.

The purpose of the SPDX License List is to enable efficient and reliable identification of such licenses and exceptions in an SPDX document, in source files or elsewhere.

• License Exceptions are commonly found exceptions to free and open source licenses, used with the License Expression operator, "WITH" to create a license with an exception.
• The matching guidelines define what constitutes a license or exception match. The license text on the HTML pages here will display omitable text in blue and replaceable text in red (see Guideline #2 for more information).
• Explanation of fields used on the SPDX License List
• License inclusion principles for adding new licenses or exceptions to the SPDX License List
• Contribute to the project or request a new license
• Use short identifiers in your source code
• Github repo
• Machine readable data files for the SPDX License List

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Deprecated License Identifiers

Release 2.0 of the SPDX Specification introduced License Expressions that supports the ability to identify common variations of SPDX-identified licenses without the need to define each potential variation as a distinct license on the SPDX License List. This new syntax supports the ability to declare an SPDX-identified license exception using the "WITH" operator (e.g. GPL-2.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-2.0), as well as the ability to use a simple "+" operator after a license short identifier to indicate "or later version". SPDX has defined a list of license exceptions to use after the "WITH" operator. As a result, a number of licenses formerly included on the SPDX License List have been deprecated, and correct usage employs the License Expression syntax as of v2.0.

Release 3.0 replaced previous Identifiers for GNU licenses with more explicit Identifiers to reflect the "this version only" or "any later version" option specific to those licenses. As such, the previously used Identifiers for those licenses are deprecated as of v3.0.

Other licenses may have been deprecated for the reasons noted.

The URL to each deprecated license still exists and those license pages have been updated to note the deprecation.

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