The FOSSology Project – Open Source Software for Open Source License Compliance
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FOSSology scans uploaded packages, extracts license texts, copyright statements and export-control keywords, and generates SPDX, RDF and Word reports; it ships as a GPL‑2.0 Linux Foundation project and runs as a web server with CLI agents. New work adds a REST API for automated uploads and report retrieval, supports SPDX import to merge prior analyses, and combines rule engines Nomos and Monk plus a statistical agent to improve imprecise matches.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:23Overview: Contents
- 0:39The Problem Actually
- 1:21It is about finding licenses
- 2:51What is FOSSology?
- 4:47How does FOSSology work?
- 5:04Features: Two License Scanner: Nomos and Monk
- 7:02Feature: SPDX Import
- 8:37Feature: Analysis Documentation
- 9:09Feature: Obligations / Policies Management
- 9:53Feature: REST API-Basic functionality
- 22:08Summary
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