The SPDX License List is a list of commonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open source and other collaborative software or documentation. The purpose of the SPDX License List is to enable easy and efficient identification of such licenses and exceptions in an SPDX document, in source files or elsewhere. The SPDX License List includes a standardized short identifier, full name, vetted license text including matching guidelines markup as appropriate, and a canonical permanent URL for each license and exception.

Prefix
spdx
Links
Homepage
Contact
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Software Package Data Exchange License should match this regular expression:
^[0-9A-Za-z\-.]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
CC-BY-1.0   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Software Package Data Exchange License should match this regular expression:
^spdx:[0-9A-Za-z\-.]+$

Example CURIE
spdx:CC-BY-1.0
Metaregistry Software Package Data Exchange License

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam spdx
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t spdx
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE spdx:CC-BY-1.0 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Software Package Data Exchange License spdx https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-1.0
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/spdx:CC-BY-1.0
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/spdx:CC-BY-1.0
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/spdx:CC-BY-1.0