A Ruby library around the SPDX license data, which provides a set of standard identifiers for open source licenses.
The data is maintained by SPDX. This library redistributes the licenses JSON file.
$ gem install spdx-licenses
or in your Gemfile:
gem 'spdx-licenses'
This gem and its API is versioned according to semver. Minor releases may contain updates to the SPDX License List data.
| spdx-licenses | SPDX License List |
|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | 1.2.0 |
| 1.1.0 | 2.4 |
| 1.2.0 | 3.1 |
| 1.3.0 | 3.11-54 |
> lic = SpdxLicenses.lookup('Apache-2.0')
> lic.id
"Apache-2.0"
> lic.name
"Apache License 2.0"
> lic.osi_approved?
true
> SpdxLicenses.lookup('Unknown')
nil
> SpdxLicenses.exist?('Apache-2.0')
true
> SpdxLicenses.exist?('Unknown')
false
Copyright (c) 2014-2021 Dominic Cleal. Distributed under the MIT license.