Version 3.15 of the SPDX License List

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 https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/DOCS/submission-response-template.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 comparision of changes from 3.14 to 3.15: v3.14...v3.15

Version 3.14 of the SPDX License List

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: v3.13...v3.14

Version 3.13 of the SPDX License List

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 comparision of changes from 3.12 to 3.13: v3.12...v3.13

Version 3.12

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: v3.11...v3.12

Version 3.11

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 where 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 comparision of changes from 3.10 to 3.11: v3.10...v3.11

Version 3.10

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 comparision of changes from 3.9 to 3.10: v3.9...v3.10

Version 3.9

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: v3.8...v3.9

Version 3.8

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 comparision of changes from 3.7 to 3.8: v3.7...v3.8

Version 3.7

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 comparision of changes from 3.6 to 3.7: v3.6...v3.7

Version 3.6

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 comparision of changes from 3.5 to 3.6: v3.5...v3.6