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FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. In one click you can generate an SPDX file, or a ReadMe with the copyrights notices from your software. FOSSology deduplication means that you can scan an entire distro, submit a new version, and only the changed files will get rescanned. This is a big time saver for large projects.
Please note: FOSSology does not give legal advice.
Please see the Contact Us page to subscribe to our mailing lists and/or join our irc channel. If you register you can also use the Forum on fossology.org.
Our source repository, developer documentation and issue tracker are on https://github.com/fossology/fossology
Want to try out FOSSology? Try our demo server: http://52.26.97.143/repo/ (user: testuser, password: test, this is a user w/o admin rights)
The latest release can be found here: https://github.com/fossology/fossology/releases
An archive of old packages for downloads are available from http://www.fossology.org/releases/. You can also find a source tarball there.
A basic user documentation is on the projects home page. Please find here more detailed topcis documentation.
FOSSology runs as a server application. As such, some topics require further documentation:
The main documentation place for developers can be found here: https://github.com/fossology/fossology/wiki
The following lists pages from earlier versions of FOSSology:
The testing of FOSSology has two main areas: