3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:

• ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp
• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/

3.1

annotations information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains comments about an SPDX document, SPDX file, SPDX package, or SPDX snippet

3.2

field

a piece of information contained in a section (3.9)

3.3

file information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains facts specific to files

3.4

other licensing information detected section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains a way to capture information about and refer to licenses that are not on the SPDX license List

3.5

package

any unit of content that can be associated with a distribution of software

3.6

package information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains facts that are common properties of a package

3.7

relationships between SPDX elements information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains information on how documents, packages (3.5), files and snippets relate to each other

3.8

review information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains information about persons, organizations or tools that have reviewed a document

3.9

section

a part of this SPDX specification

3.10

snippet information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains facts that are specific to a part of a file

3.11

SPDX document

collection of section (3.8) instances each of which contains information about software organized using the SPDX format (3.11)

3.12

SPDX document creation information section

section (3.9) type, an instance of which contains metadata that associates analysis results with a specific version of an SPDX document (3.11) and license for use, and provides information on how, when, and by whom the SPDX document was created

3.13

SPDX format

the data format defined by this document

3.14

sub-package

a package which is embedded in a larger package