spdx

🆔 spdx

Helper crate for SPDX license expressions

About

This crate's main purpose is to parse and evaluate SPDX license expressions. It also optionally provides the ability to scan text data for SPDX license information. Each version of this crate contains a specific version of the official SPDX license list which can be retrieved via the spdx::identifiers::VERSION constant.

Features

• text - Includes the full canonical text of each license
• detection - Allows analysis of text to determine if it might be an SPDX license text, or have an SPDX license header
• detection-cache - Allows de/serialization of a Store for quicker loading
• detection-inline-cache - Inlines a Store cache into this crate, which allows easier loading in downstream crates at the cost of increased binary size
• detection-parallel - Performs license detection in parallel within the same text

Usage

use spdx::Expression;

let this_is_fine = Expression::parse("MIT OR Apache-2.0").unwrap();

assert!(this_is_fine.evaluate(|req| {
    if let spdx::LicenseItem::Spdx { id, .. } = req.license {
        // Both MIT and Apache-2.0 are OSI approved, so this expression
        // evaluates to true
        return id.is_osi_approved();
    }

    false
}));

assert!(!this_is_fine.evaluate(|req| {
    if let spdx::LicenseItem::Spdx { id, .. } = req.license {
        // This is saying we don't accept any licenses that are OSI approved
        // so the expression will evaluate to false as both sides of the OR
        // are now rejected
        return !id.is_osi_approved();
    }

    false
}));

// `NOPE` is not a valid SPDX license identifier, so this expression
// will fail to parse
let _this_is_not = Expression::parse("MIT OR NOPE").unwrap_err();

Updating SPDX list

You can update the list of SPDX identifiers for licenses and exceptions by running the update program cargo run --manifest-path=update/Cargo.toml -- v3.6 where v3.6 is the tag in the SPDX data repo.

Contributing

We welcome community contributions to this project.

Please read our Contributor Guide for more information on how to get started.

License

Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.