On Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 4:35 PM Joshua Watt via lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> We are heavily considering dropping the generation of SPDX 2.2 data
> from the 6.0 LTS release; compared to SPDX 3, the 2.2 data is pretty
> substandard with what it can represent and we don't necessarily want
> to pay the maintenance cost of maintaining it for another 4 years.
>
> If you have tooling that uses SPDX 2.2, please add support for SPDX 3.
>
> If dropping this support would cause you serious problems, please let
> us know. There is the option that SPDX 2.2 could live in it its own
> mix-in layer, but I myself won't have time to do this before the LTS
> release.
>

SBOM generation involves vendors feeding into platforms which might be
relying upon prior LTS. This goes deep and across organizations. I would
have expected some overlap for these downstream platforms to plan and
migrate to new version. These are the reasons why products stick to old
releases, especially when this is too late in LTS cycle. I think it would
have been good to depreciate it in one of prior releases aftter 5.0 LTS to
let community plan to absorb this change and then remove it.

>
> Thank you,
> Joshua Watt
>
> 
>
>
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