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# 1 Scope

This System Package Data Exchange (SPDX®) specification defines a standard capable of representing systems with software components in as SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials) and other AI, data and security references supporting a range of risk management use cases. An SPDX document can be associated with a set of software packages, files or snippets and contains information about the software in the SPDX format described in this specification.
The System Package Data Exchange (SPDX®) specification defines an open standard
for communicating bill of materials (BOM) information for different topic
areas.

SPDX defines an underlying data model as well as multiple serialization formats
to encode that data model.

SPDX metadata includes details about creation and distribution, including the
following:

- software composition, for collections of software (Packages), individual
Files, and portions of files (Snippets)
- software build information
- artificial intelligence (AI) models
- datasets
- creator, supplier and distributor identity information
- provenance and integrity
- licenses and copyrights, including a curated list of licenses and exceptions
- security vulnerabilities, defects, and other quality data
- relationships between system elements
- software usage and lifecycle
- mechanisms to enable annotating SPDX elements and linking between multiple
SPDX Documents
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