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Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities, and companies.

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The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit technology consortium established to support Linux development and open-source software projects. It hosts a wide range of collaborative projects spanning cloud computing, networking, security, and data standards. In the metadata context, the Linux Foundation hosts the SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) project, which provides a standard for communicating software bill of materials information including licensing and security references.