https://yourlicense.ca.dev.prosyon.ca/tags/spdx/Recent content in Spdx on Your LicenseHugoen-cahttps://yourlicense.ca.dev.prosyon.ca/guide/spdx-identifiers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://yourlicense.ca.dev.prosyon.ca/guide/spdx-identifiers/<p><strong>SPDX</strong> is the Software Package Data Exchange — an open standard for communicating software bill-of-materials information, including licenses. Its most visible piece is the SPDX License List: a registry of short, unique identifiers for each license.</p> <p>Examples:</p> <ul> <li><code>MIT</code></li> <li><code>Apache-2.0</code></li> <li><code>GPL-3.0-only</code> (or <code>GPL-3.0-or-later</code>)</li> <li><code>BSD-3-Clause</code></li> <li><code>CC-BY-4.0</code></li> </ul> <h2 id="spdx-identifiers-in-source-files">SPDX identifiers in source files</h2> <p>Add a one-line header to the top of every source file:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT </code></pre><p>Tools including <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE</a>, <code>licensee</code>, and GitHub&rsquo;s license detection understand these identifiers and will correctly attribute the file.</p>