Over the last several years, a number of large companies have adopted SPDX for internal tracking and sharing of licensing information, according to Jack Manbeck, SPDX Business Team co-chair.
“Commercial license analysis tools are now able to generate and consume the format,” Manbeck told eWEEK. “Open-source tools have started to emerge now on GitHub as well.”
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