fossology
An open-source license compliance software system and toolkit for scanning licenses, copyrights, and export controls.
What is fossology?
FOSSology is an open-source license compliance software system and toolkit that helps organizations identify licenses, copyrights, and export control issues in their software codebases. It provides both command-line tools for automated scanning and a web-based workflow system for managing compliance processes. The system generates SPDX reports and handles incremental scanning to efficiently analyze large projects.
Software development teams, legal compliance officers, and open-source program offices (OSPOs) in organizations that use or distribute open-source software and need to manage license obligations.
Developers choose FOSSology because it offers a comprehensive, scalable solution for open-source compliance that combines automated scanning with workflow management, supports industry-standard SPDX reporting, and provides deduplication to efficiently handle large codebases.
Overview
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. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
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