SPDX IDs for approved licenses

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I noticed in New license request: OGDL-Taiwan-1.0 [SPDX-Online-Tools] · Issue #1112 · spdx/license-list-XML · GitHub a SPDX ID request for OGDL-Taiwan-1.0 and was reminded that several other licenses that we’ve approved don’t have SPDX IDs, or our materials use a slightly different identifier.

Made a start at alignment on the conforming licenses page in add SPDX IDs by mlinksva · Pull Request #209 · okfn/opendefinition · GitHub

There are certainly other places, but that’s the most visible one.

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A strong plea for one single consistent complete set of license identifiers for data-capable licenses in regular use. R.

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ISO/IEC 5230:2020

The SPDX identifiers are now part of the new ISO/IEC specification indicated. The official PDF is expensive but the following document is “functionally identical”:

  • Joint Development Foundation (2020). OpenChain Specification — Version 2.1. Joint Development Foundation. This Specification is functionally identical to ISO/IEC 5230:2020. Licensed under Creative Commons CC‑BY‑4.0.
  • 2020-jdf-openchain-specification-version-21.pdf (250 KB)
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