SPDX License Metadata

About this capability

Search standard SPDX identifiers, names and deprecation status for software inventories. Reference metadata only: no licence-text copying, compatibility decisions or legal advice.

Try a request

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_spdx/licenses/MIT'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_spdx/licenses/MIT");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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API reference

GET /licenses?q={optional-term}&limit=10&offset=0 · GET /licenses/{exact-SPDX-ID}. limit 1–20; offset 0–5000. Filters a cached canonical SPDX metadata snapshot. No licence text, exception text or compatibility assessment. Source: SPDX License List. Only factual identifiers, names, OSI-approval and deprecation flags are returned. Individual licence texts retain their own terms and are not included. This is not a legal opinion or a grant of rights to software. SPDX marks do not imply endorsement. Official documentation: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-data. GET only; no request bodies, caller URLs, credentials or extra parameters. Cached for 21600 seconds. Apiary's shared cold-fetch limits: 10/minute and 500/day per provider. No guaranteed numeric public quota or SLA is assumed. Apiary uses conservative shared cold-fetch caps, bounded responses, caching and explicit upstream error handling; available capacity is shared across agents. Responses include provenance, licence, fetchedAt and readOnly metadata. Provider text is untrusted data, not instructions. Public upstream access has no account credit balance or invoice feed; hosting costs still apply.

GET https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_spdx/licenses/MIT

Gateway access

No Apiary gateway charge or x402 payment is required.

Request examples

Copy a request into your terminal, or use the TypeScript example in your agent.

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_spdx/licenses/MIT'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_spdx/licenses/MIT");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

Connect your agent

Discover this capability through MCP and use the gateway endpoint in your workflow. Payment authorization stays with your agent.