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Release Notes for SPDX License List

version 3.25.0 - 2024-08-19

New licenses/exceptions added: 9

  1. DocBook-Schema
  2. DocBook-XML
  3. erlang-otp-linking-exception
  4. HIDAPI
  5. HPND-Netrek
  6. romic-exception
  7. Ruby-pty
  8. Ubuntu-font-1.0
  9. X11-swapped

Deprecated Net-SNMP license identifier.

Added and improved markup for several licenses.

See all PRs for 3.25.0 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.25.0%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.24.0 to 3.25.0: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.24.0...v3.25.0

version 3.24.0 - 2024-05-22

New licenses/exceptions added: 25

  1. 3D-Slicer-1.0
  2. AMD-newlib
  3. any-OSI
  4. Asterisk-linking-protocols-exception
  5. BSD-2-Clause-first-lines
  6. Catharon
  7. cve-tou
  8. Gutmann
  9. HPND-export-US-acknowledgement
  10. HPND-export2-US
  11. HPND-Intel
  12. HPND-merchantability-variant
  13. HPND-sell-variant-MIT-disclaimer-rev
  14. HPND-UC-export-US
  15. MIT-Khronos-old
  16. NCBI-PD
  17. NCL
  18. OAR
  19. PCRE2-exception
  20. pkgconf
  21. PPL
  22. RRDtool-FLOSS-exception-2.0
  23. Sun-PPP-2000
  24. threeparttable
  25. xzoom

Began including ".0" patch version for release version tags to align with SPDX 3.0 requirements.

Added and improved markup for many licenses, including fixes to markup for several Creative Commons licenses.

Added notes on historical releases and added listVersionAdded tags for many previously-added licenses.

Added first draft of documentation regarding processes for common review practices, and minor improvements to other documentation.

Fixed technical issue when merging multiple PRs in close succession.

Fixed typo in license list schema XSD file.

See all PRs for 3.24.0 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.24.0%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.23 to 3.24.0: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.23...v3.24.0

version 3.23 - 2024-02-08

New licenses/exceptions added: 43

  1. Adobe-Display-PostScript
  2. AML-glslang
  3. bcrypt-Solar-Designer
  4. Bison-exception-1.24
  5. Brian-Gladman-2-Clause
  6. BSD-2-Clause-Darwin
  7. BSD-3-Clause-acpica
  8. BSD-Source-beginning-file
  9. BSD-Systemics-W3Works
  10. Caldera-no-preamble
  11. CC-BY-3.0-AU
  12. CMU-Mach-nodoc
  13. DEC-3-Clause
  14. DRL-1.1
  15. fmt-exception
  16. FSFAP-no-warranty-disclaimer
  17. GCR-docs
  18. Gmsh-exception
  19. GNOME-examples-exception
  20. gtkbook
  21. hdparm
  22. HPND-Fenneberg-Livingston
  23. HPND-INRIA-IMAG
  24. HPND-Kevlin-Henney
  25. HPND-MIT-disclaimer
  26. HPND-sell-MIT-disclaimer-xserver
  27. ISC-Veillard
  28. LPD-document
  29. Mackerras-3-Clause
  30. Mackerras-3-Clause-acknowledgment
  31. mailprio
  32. OpenSSL-standalone
  33. OpenVision
  34. Pixar
  35. radvd
  36. SAX-PD-2.0
  37. softSurfer
  38. SSLeay-standalone
  39. Sun-PPP
  40. TGPPL-1.0
  41. UMich-Merit
  42. Unicode-3.0
  43. xkeyboard-config-Zinoviev

Added first draft of documentation regarding processes for license matching to avoid duplicates on the License List.

Added and improved markup for many licenses and many minor improvements to other documentation.

See all PRs for 3.23 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.23%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.22 to 3.23: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.22...v3.23

version 3.22 - 2023-10-05

New licenses/exceptions added: 48

  1. Adobe-Utopia
  2. Autoconf-exception-generic-3.0
  3. BSD-3-Clause-flex
  4. BSD-3-Clause-HP
  5. BSD-3-Clause-Sun
  6. BSD-Inferno-Nettverk
  7. BSD-Systemics
  8. check-cvs
  9. Cronyx
  10. DL-DE-ZERO-2.0
  11. FBM
  12. Ferguson-Twofish
  13. Furuseth
  14. fwlw
  15. GCC-exception-2.0-note
  16. GNU-compiler-exception
  17. HP-1989
  18. HPND-DEC
  19. HPND-doc
  20. HPND-doc-sell
  21. HPND-export-US-modify
  22. HPND-Pbmplus
  23. HPND-sell-regexpr
  24. HPND-UC
  25. Kastrup
  26. lsof
  27. Lucida-Bitmap-Fonts
  28. magaz
  29. McPhee-slideshow
  30. MIT-testregex
  31. MMIXware
  32. MPEG-SSG
  33. PADL
  34. pnmstitch
  35. python-ldap
  36. SANE-exception
  37. SGI-OpenGL
  38. SL
  39. Soundex
  40. ssh-keyscan
  41. stunnel-exception
  42. swrule
  43. Texinfo-exception
  44. TTYP0
  45. UBDL-exception
  46. ulem
  47. URT-RLE
  48. Zeeff

Added and improved markup for many licenses and many minor improvements to other documentation.

See all PRs for 3.22 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.22%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.21 to 3.22: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.21...v3.22

version 3.21 - 2023-06-18

New licenses/exceptions added: 28

  1. Asterisk-exception
  2. ASWF-Digital-Assets-1.0
  3. ASWF-Digital-Assets-1.1
  4. Autoconf-exception-macro
  5. Boehm-GC
  6. CC-BY-SA-3.0-IGO
  7. cryptsetup-OpenSSL-exception
  8. dtoa
  9. GPL-3.0-interface-exception
  10. Inner-Net-2.0
  11. Latex2e-translated-notice
  12. libpri-OpenH323-exception
  13. Linux-man-pages-1-para
  14. Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para
  15. Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var
  16. LLGPL
  17. metamail
  18. MIT-Festival
  19. NIST-Software
  20. OLFL-1.3
  21. OPL-UK-3.0
  22. SGP4
  23. TermReadKey
  24. UnixCrypt
  25. vsftpd-openssl-exception
  26. Widget-Workshop
  27. Xdebug-1.03
  28. Xfig

Added documentation for inclusion principles for exceptions on the SPDX Exceptions List.

Removed isDeprecated field from licenses and exceptions in favor of deprecatedVersion alone.

Added and improved markup for many licenses and many minor improvements to other documentation.

Updated to latest version of the License List Publisher and GitHub Actions dependencies.

Designated current license list XML schema as version 1.0.0.

See all PRs for 3.21 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.21%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.20 to 3.21: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.20...v3.21

version 3.20 - 2023-02-17

New licenses/exceptions added: 40

  1. AdaCore-doc
  2. Autoconf-exception-generic
  3. BSD-4.3RENO
  4. BSD-4.3TAHOE
  5. BSD-Advertising-Acknowledgement
  6. BSD-Attribution-HPND-disclaimer
  7. Bitstream-Charter
  8. Brian-Gladman-3-Clause
  9. CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0-DE
  10. CFITSIO
  11. CMU-Mach
  12. Clips
  13. Cornell-Lossless-JPEG
  14. GNAT-exception
  15. Graphics-Gems
  16. HP-1986
  17. HPND-Markus-Kuhn
  18. HPND-export-US
  19. HPND-sell-variant-MIT-disclaimer
  20. IEC-Code-Components-EULA
  21. IJG-short
  22. JPL-image
  23. Kazlib
  24. LOOP
  25. MIT-Wu
  26. Martin-Birgmeier
  27. OFFIS
  28. OpenPBS-2.3
  29. QPL-1.0-INRIA-2004
  30. QPL-1.0-INRIA-2004-exception
  31. snprintf
  32. SunPro
  33. SWI-exception
  34. Symlinks
  35. TPDL
  36. TPL-1.0
  37. TTWL
  38. UCAR
  39. w3m
  40. xlock

Added historical timeline for the license list.

Recorded and made available links to videos showing two different processes for creating license XML files, and improved related process documentation.

Added and improved markup for many licenses and many minor improvements to other documentation.

Adjusted ListedLicense XSD schema to remove directly-nested lists that had resulted in invalid HTML, and made corresponding fixes to XML for many licenses.

Fixed broken validate-schema CI check and simplified test-one-license script.

Updated to latest version of the License List Publisher.

See all PRs for 3.20 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.20%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.19 to 3.20: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.19...v3.20

version 3.19 - 2022-11-30

New licenses/exceptions added: 5

  1. checkmk
  2. FSFULLRWD
  3. Knuth-CTAN
  4. libutil-David-Nugent
  5. x11vnc-openssl-exception

Many improvements to documentation, including new docs on XML template fields and license list release process, and a rework of the FAQs.

Improvements to documentation and requested fields for online license request tool.

Renamed master branch to main and made conforming edits.

Cleanup of markup for many licenses and other minor changes.

See all PRs for 3.19 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.19%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.18 to 3.19: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.18...v3.19

version 3.18 - 2022-08-11

New licenses/exceptions added: 10

  1. CC-BY-3.0-IGO
  2. GStreamer-exception-2005
  3. GStreamer-exception-2008
  4. LZMA-SDK-9.11-to-9.20
  5. LZMA-SDK-9.22
  6. MS-LPL
  7. Minpack
  8. mpi-permissive
  9. NICTA-1.0
  10. Python-2.0.1

Corrected designation of KiCad-libraries-exception (added in 3.17) as an exception rather than a license.

Implemented license decision template for improved clarity on legal team decisions regarding license submission requests.

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

See all PRs for 3.18 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.18%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.17 to 3.18: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.17...v3.18

version 3.17 - 2022-05-08

New licenses/exceptions added: 5

  1. Arphic-1999
  2. Baekmuk
  3. Bitstream-Vera
  4. KiCad-libraries-exception
  5. mplus

For the LGPL-3.0 collection of licenses, added GPL-3.0 text as optional inclusion at end of license text.

Migrated SPDX License List FAQs from SPDX website into license-list-XML repo in MarkDown format.

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 3.17 here: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3A%223.17%22+is%3Aclosed

See comparison of changes from 3.16 to 3.17: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.16...v3.17

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 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 comparison 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 #1310 for more details.

Added template for reviews of new license requests, to evaluate against the license inclusion principles. See DOCS/template-license-review-checklist.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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison 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 comparison of changes from 3.2 and 3.3: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/compare/v3.2...v3.3