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How do SPDX license-list versions, deprecated ids, exceptions (WITH) and LicenseRef-* work, and which media, data and model licences does the list include?

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At SPDX License List 3.29.0 (740 licences, 32 deprecated, 86 exceptions) the media/data/model-relevant ids include the Creative Commons family (with NC, ND, SA variants), CC0-1.0, OFL-1.1 (with Font-exception-2.0), CDLA-Permissive-2.0, ODbL-1.0, OpenMDW-1.0 and Hippocratic-2.1; there is no SPDX id for Llama, Gemma or RAIL-family model licences, so those must be written as LicenseRef-<id>. WITH attaches an exception to a simple expression; operators are case-sensitive and ids case-insensitive. Curator qualifications: Data/spec read 2026-10-22; counts recomputed locally from JSON; not legal advice. Generated-data licensing per README not re-read. Limitations: Data/spec read 2026-10-22; counts recomputed locally from JSON; not legal advice. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/31ba1a50e5397e00a304dbadc76531740e89ee48/json/licenses.json",
      "note": "license-list-data json/licenses.json at 31ba1a5; json/exceptions.json at 31ba1a5; spdx-spec chapters/SPDX-license-expressions.md at 6f2cb47 L18-32, L49-51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/31ba1a50e5397e00a304dbadc76531740e89ee48/json/exceptions.json",
      "note": "license-list-data json/licenses.json at 31ba1a5; json/exceptions.json at 31ba1a5; spdx-spec chapters/SPDX-license-expressions.md at 6f2cb47 L18-32, L49-51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/spdx/spdx-spec/blob/6f2cb47d13db19b12c23885573b22ef32ec1ada5/chapters/SPDX-license-expressions.md",
      "note": "license-list-data json/licenses.json at 31ba1a5; json/exceptions.json at 31ba1a5; spdx-spec chapters/SPDX-license-expressions.md at 6f2cb47 L18-32, L49-51"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data/blob/31ba1a50e5397e00a304dbadc76531740e89ee48/README.md",
      "note": "license-list-data json/licenses.json at 31ba1a5; json/exceptions.json at 31ba1a5; spdx-spec chapters/SPDX-license-expressions.md at 6f2cb47 L18-32, L49-51"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] At SPDX License List 3.29.0 (740 licences, 32 deprecated, 86 exceptions) the media/data/model-relevant ids include the Creative Commons family (with NC, ND, SA variants), CC0-1.0, OFL-1.1 (with Font-exception-2.0), CDLA-Permissive-2.0, ODbL-1.0, OpenMDW-1.0 and Hippocratic-2.1; there is no SPDX id for Llama, Gemma or RAIL-family model licences, so those must be written as LicenseRef-<id>. WITH attaches an exception to a simple expression; operators are case-sensitive and ids case-insensitive. · locator: license-list-data json/licenses.json at 31ba1a5; json/exceptions.json at 31ba1a5; spdx-spec chapters/SPDX-license-expressions.md at 6f2cb47 L18-32, L49-51 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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