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Release Notes for SPDX License List

version 3.16 - 2022-02-06

New licenses/exceptions added: 6

  1. App-s2p
  2. DL-DE-BY-2.0
  3. Elastic-2.0
  4. Jam
  5. SchemeReport
  6. X11-distribute-modifications-variant

Deprecated licenses/exceptions: 1

  1. bzip2-1.0.5

Added documentation describing how to use the Git command line to create and test new license XML files. See https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/git-usage.md for more information.

Updates to various documentation, adjustments to markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

Updated to latest version of the License List Publisher.

See all PRs for 3.16 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.16%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.15 to 3.16: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.15...v3.16

version 3.15 - 2021-11-14

New licenses/exceptions added: 4

  1. COIL-1.0
  2. Community-Spec-1.0
  3. FDK-AAC
  4. Linux-man-pages-copyleft

Note that "Linux-man-pages-copyleft" was initially merged as "Verbatim-man-pages", but at the community's request the ID was updated prior to inclusion in the release. See spdx#1310 for more details.

Added template for reviews of new license requests, to evaluate against the license inclusion principles. See https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/submission-response-template.md for the review template.

Updates to various documentation, adjustments to markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

Updated to latest version of the License List Publisher.

See all PRs for 3.15 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.15%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.14 to 3.15: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.14...v3.15

version 3.14 - 2021-08-08

New licenses/exceptions added: 13

  1. CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-FR
  2. CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-UK
  3. CC-BY-2.5-AU
  4. CC-BY-3.0-NL
  5. CC-BY-3.0-DE
  6. CC-BY-NC-3.0-DE
  7. CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-DE
  8. CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-DE
  9. CC-BY-ND-3.0-DE
  10. CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
  11. CDLA-Permissive-2.0
  12. NLOD-2.0
  13. OPUBL-1.0

Updates to various documentation, adjustments to markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.14 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.14%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.13 to 3.14: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.13...v3.14

version 3.13 - 2021-05-15

New licenses/exceptions added: 2

  1. BSD-3-Clause-No-Military-License
  2. CDL-1.0

Updates to various documentation, adjustments to markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.13 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.13%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.12 to 3.13: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.12...v3.13

version 3.12 - 2021-03-07

New licenses/exceptions added: 10

  1. BSD-3-Clause-Modification
  2. BSD-4-Clause-Shortened
  3. CC-BY-SA-2.1-JP
  4. C-UDA-1.0
  5. DRL-1.0
  6. FreeBSD-DOC
  7. GD
  8. MIT-Modern-Variant
  9. NAIST-2003
  10. OGDL-Taiwan-1.0

The test / build / deploy CI system has been migrated from Travis to GitHub Actions.

Updates to various documentation, cleanup of markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.12 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.12+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.11 to 3.12: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.11...v3.12

version 3.11 - 2020-11-25

New licenses/exceptions added: 6

  1. ANTLR-PD-fallback
  2. BUSL-1.1
  3. CC-BY-3.0-US
  4. CC-BY-SA-2.0-UK
  5. HTMLTIDY
  6. MIT-open-group

Update several licenses to note that they have become OSI-approved.

Updates and cleanup of markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.11 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.11+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.10 to 3.11: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.10...v3.11

version 3.10 - 2020-08-03

New licenses/exceptions added: 20

  1. BSD-2-Clause-Views
  2. CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-IGO
  3. CC-BY-SA-3.0-AT
  4. CC-BY-3.0-AT
  5. EPICS
  6. GFDL-1.1-invariants-only
  7. GFDL-1.1-invariants-or-later
  8. GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-only
  9. GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later
  10. GFDL-1.2-invariants-only
  11. GFDL-1.2-invariants-or-later
  12. GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-only
  13. GFDL-1.2-no-invariants-or-later
  14. GFDL-1.3-invariants-only
  15. GFDL-1.3-invariants-or-later
  16. GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only
  17. GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later
  18. GLWTPL
  19. NIST-PD
  20. NIST-PD-fallback

Extensive updates to documentation for workflow to add new licenses.

Deprecate BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD as substantively identical to BSD-2-Clause-Views.

Updates and cleanup of markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.10 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.10+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.9 to 3.10: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.9...v3.10

version 3.9 - 2020-05-15

New licenses/exceptions added: 16

  1. CAL-1.0
  2. CAL-1.0-Combined-Work-Exception
  3. CERN-OHL-P-2.0
  4. CERN-OHL-S-2.0
  5. CERN-OHL-W-2.0
  6. Hippocratic-2.1
  7. LGPL-3.0-linking-exception
  8. MulanPSL-2.0
  9. NCGL-UK-2.0
  10. O-UDA-1.0
  11. OGC-1.0
  12. Parity-7.0.0
  13. PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0
  14. PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0
  15. SHL-2.0
  16. SHL-2.1

Deprecate BSD-2-Clause-NetBSD as substantively identical to BSD-2-Clause.

Update and expand license inclusion principles.

Update matching guidelines to v2.1.

Add and update various documentation and legal team meeting details.

Add helper script to enable renaming licenses for use in preparing XML and test files.

Updates and cleanup of markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.9 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.9+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.8 to 3.9: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.8...v3.9

version 3.8 - 2020-02-09

New licenses/exceptions added: 9

  1. GPL-3.0-linking-exception
  2. GPL-3.0-linking-source-exception
  3. libselinux-1.0
  4. NTP-0
  5. OFL-1.0-RFN
  6. OFL-1.0-no-RFN
  7. OFL-1.1-RFN
  8. OFL-1.1-no-RFN
  9. PSF-2.0

Updates and cleanup of markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

Add machine-readable copy of "equivalent words" from matching guidelines.

See all PRs for 3.8 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.8+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.7 to 3.8: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.7...v3.8

version 3.7 - 2019-10-22

New licenses/exceptions added: 6

  1. etalab-2.0
  2. MulanPSL-1.0
  3. OGL-Canada-2.0
  4. SSH-OpenSSH
  5. SSH-short
  6. UCL-1.0

Updates and cleanup of markup for various licenses and other minor changes.

Add and update documentation regarding the history of the SPDX License List and development of license inclusion guidelines.

Technical fixes to license list publisher to handle appropriate display of optional text fields.

Add helper script to enable testing a single license XML file rather than requiring re-test of entire repo.

See all PRs for 3.7 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.7+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.6 to 3.7: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.6...v3.7

version 3.6 - 2019-07-10

New licenses/exceptions added: 10

  1. blessing
  2. BlueOak-1.0.0
  3. BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI
  4. CC-PDDC
  5. Parity-6.0.0
  6. SHL-0.5
  7. SHL-0.51
  8. SSPL-1.0
  9. Swift-exception
  10. Universal-FOSS-exception-1.0

Addition of markup to various licenses and other minor updates.

Add and update documentation originating from SPDX website, including:

  • About the SPDX License List
  • Explanation of SPDX License List Fields
  • License Inclusion Principles

Technical fixes to schema and license markup for handling of spacing and other updates.

Cleanup of stray whitespace across the repository.

See all PRs for 3.6 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.6+release%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparision of changes from 3.5 to 3.6: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.5...v3.6

version 3.5 - 2019-04-02

New licenses/exceptions added: 7

  1. JPNIC
  2. libpng-2.0
  3. HPND-sell-variant
  4. GPL-CC-1.0
  5. TAPR-OHL-1.0
  6. CERN-OHL-1.1
  7. CERN-OHL-1.2

Addition of markup to various licenses and other minor updates.

Add page describing internal workflow for adding a new license in /DOCS directory.

See all PRs for 3.5 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.5+release%22+

See comparison of changes from 3.4 to 3.5:

version 3.4 - 2018-12-20

New licenses/exceptions added: 1

  1. copyleft-next-0.3.0

Various minor updates to license matching markup and tools.

Updated CONTRIBUTING page and links for "Request New License" (previously a webpage) to point here

See all PRs for 3.4 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=milestone%3A%223.4+release%22+

See comparision of changes from 3.3 and 3.4: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.3...v3.4

version 3.3 - 2018-10-24

New licenses/exceptions added: 6

  1. OGL-UK-1.0
  2. OGL-UK-2.0
  3. OGL-UK-3.0
  4. copyleft-next-0.3.1
  5. OCaml-LGPL-linking-exception
  6. Sendmail-8.23

Updated or added license info for source files associated with SPDX License List (.json, scheme, .js files) with CC0-1.0

See all PRs for 3.3 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A%223.3+release%22

See comparision of changes from 3.2 and 3.3: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.2...v3.3