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At its blog, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announces the deployment of “a machine readable publication of OSI approved licenses” accessible via api.opensource.org. The service is designed to “store a central list of crosswalks and common identifiers to other services, allowing third parties who are already license-aware to provide their mappings, and pull OSI approval status programatically.” Programs can query a license by its Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) ID and determine whether or not it is OSI-approved. API wrappers are available for Python, Ruby, and Go.