Datatypes

Software license by field name

ID software_license

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Name or identifier of the license of a software package, usually written as a short SPDX license identifier such as MIT or Apache-2.0. The SPDX License List, maintained by the Linux Foundation's SPDX project, assigns these identifiers to common open source licenses. Package metadata, software bills of materials and code hosting sites use them. Values are recognised by field name and by membership in the SPDX list, not by a regular expression.

Categories

Software development

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

English

Wikidata

P2479

Quality

70/100 · missing: regexp, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

• licensebyknown field, common/software.yaml
• spdxlicensebyvalue data, common/software.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter

Examples

Sources

• doc: https://spdx.org/licenses/
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2479

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/software_license
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/software/software_license.yaml on GitHub