---
title: "300+ New Licenses Supported in FOSSA"
description: "Announcing new license data quality updates with over 300 new licenses in FOSSA."
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content_type: "blog"
language: "en"
date_published: "2018-05-30"
date_modified: "2018-05-30"
author: "Kevin Wang"
organization: "FOSSA"
---

# 300+ New Licenses Supported in FOSSA

> Announcing new license data quality updates with over 300 new licenses in FOSSA.

<p>
  Happy Memorial Day! We’d like to announce some major license data quality updates that we’ve
  introduced this weekend.
</p>

### Over 300 New Licenses

<p>
  We’ve made a massive increase to our library supported licenses. Not only can FOSSA recognize a
  broader variety, but it can also now differentiate between over 20+ variations of the BSD License,
  15+ variations of the GPL and a wide variety of non-standard proprietary licenses.
</p>

  ![New variations of the “BSD” license captured by FOSSA](https://fossa.com/1-Gi2yxoAwtw6od_mNGz9jAg.png)
  New variations of the “BSD” license captured by FOSSA

<p>
  To follow this, we’ve updated our default policy templates to include new common exceptions and
  licenses. Contact <a href="mailto:support@fossa.io">support@fossa.io</a> for help migrating to new
  policies.
</p>

### Major Improvements to Data & Report Quality

<p>
  We’ve reworked how we resolve unknown license matches which has led to a significant increase in
  report quality. In addition, we’ve improved and standardized our copyright scanning and license
  reporting format to make rendering attribution notices extremely reliable.
</p>

  ![Reliable attribution, copyright notices & deep license matches in FOSSA reports](https://fossa.com/1-SLQ19DlQ_SWZvT5Y9OR8Dg.png)

    Reliable attribution, copyright notices & deep license matches in FOSSA reports

<p>
  Overall, reports generated by FOSSA should look both significantly cleaner and full of raw
  attribution notices.
</p>

### Native Support for SPDX License IDs & Standards

<p>
  The <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">SPDX License List</a> is a standard list of commonly
  found licenses maintained by the Linux Foundation. It defines standard identifiers, license texts
  and attribution guidelines for hundreds of common licenses and exceptions used in free and open
  source software.
</p>

<p>
  FOSSA has supported SPDX identifiers for years—but now, FOSSA natively speaks SPDX under the hood.
</p>

<p>For FOSSA Enterprise customers, this ensures 2 things:</p>

1. All reports are fully compliant with industry-standard attribution practices
2. API data should be significantly easier to integrate into toolchains, especially those that follow specifications like <a href="https://www.openchainproject.org/">OpenChain</a>

### Increased Performance & Issue Hints

<p>
  Finally, we’ve improved the speed at which license data is resolved and loaded throughout FOSSA.
  Now, anywhere license data is handled throughout the application should be much faster.
</p>

<p>
  This has also allowed us to introduce richer data into the dependency browsing experience, like
  highlighting issues directly in the view.
</p>

<p>—</p>

<p>We hope you find these updates useful. As always, we’re eager to hear your feedback.</p>

## Related resources

- [Summer 2026 Product Updates: Enhanced Reports](https://fossa.com/blog/summer-2026-product-updates-enhanced-reports.md): See what's new with FOSSA's reporting capabilities, including saved report settings and cleaner attribution formatting.
- [Project Glasswing and the AI Vulnerability Math Problem](https://fossa.com/blog/project-glasswing-ai-vulnerability-math-problem.md): See analysis of one of the overlooked impacts of recent developments in AI vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
- [fossabot expands to all GitHub and GitLab tiers](https://fossa.com/blog/fossabot-expands-github-gitlab.md): fossabot now supports all tiers of GitHub and GitLab for strategic dependency upgrades.
- [Spring 2026 FOSSA Product Updates](https://fossa.com/blog/spring-2026-fossa-product-updates.md): Check out new features available to FOSSA customers, including malware detection, custom risk scores, and more.
- [Introducing Automated Malware Detection in FOSSA](https://fossa.com/blog/introducing-automated-malware-detection-fossa.md): Learn about FOSSA's new malware detection feature, including its benefits and how to use it.

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