SPDX Vocabulary Specification

Class: SpdxDocument

An SdpxDocument is a summary of the contents, provenance, ownership and licensing analysis of a specific software package. This is, effectively, the top level of SPDX information.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• specVersion
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• dataLicense
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• creationInfo
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• describesPackage
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• hasExtractedLicensingInfo
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or more

• referencesFile
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one or more

• reviewed
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or more.

Class: CreationInfo

A CreationInfo provides information about the individuals, organizations and tools involved in the creation of an SpdxDocument.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• creator
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one or more

• created
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• rdfs:comment
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

Class: Package

A Package represents a collection of software files that are delivered as a single functional component.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• name
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• versionInfo
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• packageFileName
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• supplier
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• originator
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• downloadLocation
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• packageVerificationCode
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• checksum
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• sourceInfo
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• licenseConcluded
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• licenseInfoFromFiles
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one or more

• licenseDeclared
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• licenseComments
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• copyrightText
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• summary
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• description
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• hasFile
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one or more

Class: ExtractedLicensingInfo

An ExtractedLicensingInfo represents a license or licensing notice that was found in the package. Any license text that is recognized as a license may be represented as a License rather than an ExtractedLicensingInfo.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• licenseId
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• extractedText
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

Class: File

A File represents a named sequence of information that is contained in a software package.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• fileName
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• fileType
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• checksum
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• licenseConcluded
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• licenseInfoInFile
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one or more

• licenseComments
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

• copyrightText
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• artifactOf
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

Class: Review

A Review represents an audit and signoff by an individual, organization or tool on the information in an SpdxDocument.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• reviewer
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• reviewDate
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• rdfs:comment
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or one

Class: License

A License represents a software copyright license. This class is used by the SPDX license list to represent standard licenses.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• licenseId
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• licenseText
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

Class: Checksum

A Checksum is simple value that allows the contents of a file to be authenticated. Even small changes to the content of the file will change it's checksum value.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• algorithm
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

• checksumValue
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

Class: PackageVerificationCode

A PackageVerificationCode is a value that allows authentication of the package. This differs from the Checksum in that it uses an algorithm that allows the SPDX file to be embedded in the package. This verification code is produced using a cryptographic hash algorithm applied to a manifest of the package. Some files in the package (e.g. the SPDX files) are explicitly excluded from the verification code. This allows those excluded files to not impact the verification code.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• packageVerificationCodeExcludedFile
  Cardinality: Optional, zero or more

• packageVerificationCodeValue
  Cardinality: Mandatory, one

Class: ConjunctiveLicenseSet

A ConjunctiveLicenseSet represents a set of licensing information all of which apply.

This class refines rdfs:Container.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• member
  Cardinality: Mandatory, two or more.

Class: DisjunctiveLicenseSet

A DisjunctiveLicenseSet represents a set of licensing information where only one license applies at a time. This class implies that the recipient gets to choose one of these licenses they would prefer to use.

This class refines rdfs:Container.

Status:

stable

Properties:

• member
  Cardinality: Mandatory, two or more.

Class: AnyLicenseInfo

The AnyLicenseInfo class includes all resources that represent licensing information.

Status:

stable

Members

All resources in any of the following classes:

• License
• ExtractedLicensingInfo
• ConjunctiveLicenseSet
• DisjunctiveLicenseSet

Class: SimpleLicenseInfo

The SimpleLicenseInfo class includes all resources that represent simple, atomic, licensing information.

Status:

stable

Members

All resources in any of the following classes:

• License
• ExtractedLicensingInfo

Property: algorithm

Identifies the algorithm used to produce the subject Checksum.

Currently, SHA-1 is the only supported algorithm. It is anticipated that other algorithms will be supported at a later time.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Checksum

Range:

spdx:checksumAlgorithm_sha1

Property: artifactOf

Status:

stable

Domain:

File

Range:

doap:Project

Property: checksum

The checksum property provides a mechanism that can be used to verify that the contents of a File or Package have not changed.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Any of:

• Package
• File

Range:

Checksum

Property: checksumValue

The checksumValue property provides a lower case hexidecimal encoded digest value produced using a specific algorithm.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Checksum

Range:

xsd:hexBinary

Property: created

The date and time at which the SpdxDocument was created. This value must in UTC and have 'Z' as its timezone indicator.

Status:

stable

Domain:

CreationInfo

Range:

xsd:dateTime

Property: copyrightText

The text of copyright declarations recited in the Package or File.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Any of:

• Package
• File

Range:

Any of:

• rdfs:Literal
• spdx:none
• spdx:noassertion

Property: creationInfo

The creationInfo property relates an SpdxDocument to a set of information about the creation of the SpdxDocument.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

CreationInfo

Property: creator

Status:

stable

Domain:

CreationInfo

Range:

xsd:string

Property: dataLicense

The licensing under which the creator of this SPDX document allows related data and/or database to be used. By default this is PDDL.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

AnyLicenseInfo

Property: describesPackage

The describesPackage property relates an SpdxDocument to the package which it describes.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

Package

Property: description

Provides a detailed description of the package.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:string

Property: downloadLocation

The URI at which this package is available for download. Private (i.e., not publicly reachable) URIs are acceptable as values of this property.

The values http://spdx.org/rdf/terms#none and http://spdx.org/rdf/terms#noassertion may be used to specify that the package is not downloadable or that no attempt was made to determine its download location, respectively.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:anyURI

Property: extractedText

Verbatim license or licensing notice text that was discovered.

Status:

stable

Domain:

ExtractedLicensingInfo

Range:

xsd:string

Property: fileName

The name of the file relative to the root of the package.

Status:

stable

Domain:

File

Range:

xsd:string

Property: fileType

The type of the file.

Status:

stable

Domain:

File

Range:

One of:

• spdx:fileType_source

  Indicates the file is a source code file.

• spdx:fileType_archive

  Indicates the file is an archive file.

• spdx:fileType_binary

  Indicates the file is not a text file. filetype_archive is preferred for archive files even though they are binary.

• spdx:fileType_other

  Indicates the file did not fall into any of the other categories.

Property: hasExtractedLicensingInfo

Indicates that a particular ExtractedLicensingInfo was defined in the subject SpdxDocument.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

ExtractedLicensingInfo

Property: hasFile

Indicates that a particular file belongs to a package.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

File

Property: licenseComments

The licenseComments property allows the preparer of the SPDX document to describe why the licensing in spdx:licenseConcluded was chosen.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Any of:

• Package
• File

Range:

xsd:string

Property: licenseConcluded

The licensing that the preparer of this SPDX document has concluded, based on the evidence, actually applies to the package.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Any of:

• Package
• File

Range:

Any of:

• AnyLicenseInfo
• spdx:none
• spdx:noassertion

Property: licenseDeclared

The licensing that the creators of the software in the package, or the packager, have declared. Declarations by the original software creator should be preferred, if they exist.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

Any of:

• AnyLicenseInfo
• spdx:none
• spdx:noassertion

Property: licenseId

A short name for the license that is at least 3 characters long and made up of the characters from the set 'a'-'z', 'A'-'Z', '0'-'9', '+', '_', '.', and '-'. Formally, all licenseId values must match the regular expression: [-+_.a-zA-Z0-9]{3,}

Status:

stable

Domain:

• License
• ExtractedLicensingInfo

Range:

xsd:string

Property: licenseText

The full text of the license.

Status:

stable

Domain:

License

Range:

xsd:string

Property: licenseInfoFromFiles

The licensing information that was discovered directly within the package. There will be an instance of this property for each distinct value of all licenseInfoInFile properties of all files contained in the package.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

Any of:

• SimpleLicenseInfo
• spdx:none
• spdx:noassertion

Property: licenseInfoInFile

Licensing information that was discovered directly in the subject file.

Status:

stable

Domain:

File

Range:

Any of:

• SimpleLicenseInfo
• spdx:none
• spdx:noassertion

Property: member

A license, or other licensing information, that is a member of the subject license set.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Any of:

• ConjunctiveLicenseSet
• DisjunctiveLicenseSet

Range:

AnyLicenseInfo

Refines:

rdfs:member

Property: name

The full name of the package including version information.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:string

Property: packageFileName

The base name of the package file name. For example, zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:string

Property: packageVerificationCode

A manifest based checksum (the algorithm is defined in section 4.7 of the full specification) of the package. This allows consumers of this data to determine if a package they have in hand is identical to the package from which the data was produced. This algorithm works even if the SPDX document is included in the package. This algorithm is described in detail in the SPDX specification.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

PackageVerificationCode

Property: packageVerificationCodeExcludedFile

A file that was excluded when calculating the package verification code. This is usually a file containing SPDX data regarding the package. If a package contains more than one SPDX file all SPDX files must be excluded from the package verification code. If this is not done each recalculation of the package verification code in one file will require the other to be recalculated to be valid which will require the original which will require the original file's be recalculated, ad infinitum.

Status:

stable

Domain:

PackageVerificationCode

Range:

xsd:string

Property: packageVerificationCodeValue

The actual package verification code as a hex encoded value.

Status:

stable

Domain:

PackageVerificationCode

Range:

xsd:hexBinary

Property: originator

Status:

stable

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

Any of:

• xsd:string
• spdx:noassertion

Property: referencesFile

Indicates that a particular file belongs as part of the set of analyzed files in the SpdxDocument.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

File

Property: reviewDate

The date and time at which the SpdxDocument was reviewed. This value must be in UTC and have 'Z' as its timezone indicator.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Review

Range:

xsd:dateTime

Property: reviewed

The review property relates a SpdxDocument to the review history.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

Review

Property: reviewer

Status:

stable

Status:

stable

Domain:

Review

Range:

xsd:string

Property: sourceInfo

Allows the producer(s) of the SPDX document to describe how the package was acquired and/or changed from the original source.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:string

Property: specVersion

Identifies the version of this specification that was used to produce this SPDX document. Currently the only supported value is SPDX-1.0.

Status:

stable

Domain:

SpdxDocument

Range:

xsd:string

Property: summary

Provides a short description of the package.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:string

Property: supplier

Status:

stable

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

Any of:

• xsd:string
• spdx:noassertion

Property: versionInfo

Provides an indication of the version of the package that is described by this SpdxDocument.

Status:

stable

Domain:

Package

Range:

xsd:string

Individual: checksumAlgorithm_sha1

Indicates the algorithm used was SHA-1

Status:

stable

Individual: fileType_archive

Indicates the file is an archive file.

Status:

stable

Individual: fileType_binary

Indicates the file is not a text file. spdx:filetype_archive is preferred for archive files even though they are binary.

Status:

stable

Individual: fileType_other

Indicates the file is not a source, archive or binary file.

Status:

stable

Individual: fileType_source

Indicates the file is a source code file.

Status:

stable

Individual: noassertion

Indicates that the preparer of the SPDX document is not making any assertion regarding the value of this field.

Status:

stable

Individual: none

When this value is used as the object of a property it indicates that the preparer of the SpdxDocument believes that there is no value for the property. This value should only be used if there is sufficient evidence to support this assertion.

Status:

stable