SPDX License List
Provides the SPDX License List as a Python dictionary
Data source: spdx/license-list-data
Originally designed as a replacement for Michael Pöhn's spdx-license-list but does not have the same API
Installation
pip install spdx-license-list
API
spdx_license_list.LICENSES is a dictionary of all the licenses.
The dictionary uses the identifier (id) as the keys, and the values are (typed) named tuples with the following attributes:
- id (str) - short identifier to identify a match to licenses in the context of an SPDX file, a source file, or elsewhere
- name (str) - full name that should be the title found in the license file or consistent with naming from other well-known sources
- deprecated_id (bool) - idendifier is deprecated
- fsf_libre (bool) - license is listed as free by the FSF
- osi_approved (bool) - license is OSI-approved
spdx_license_list.EXCEPTIONS is a dictionary of all the license exceptions.
The dictionary uses the identifier (id) as the keys, and the values are (typed) named tuples with the following attributes:
- id (str) - short identifier to identify a match to license exceptions in the context of an SPDX file, a source file, or elsewhere
- name (str) - full name that should be the title found in the license file or consistent with naming from other well-known sources
- deprecated_id (bool) - idendifier is deprecated
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