/* suppress the table of contents for the front page */ ~~NOTOC~~ ====== FOSSology Mission ====== {{ fossology_flowchart.png}} Our mission is to build a community to facilitate the study of Free and Open Source Software by providing free data analysis tools. /* ensure following headings start left-justified */
====== Fossology RELEASE: Version 1.0.0, December 17, 2008 ====== New in version 1.0.0: * Massive improvements to web-based user interface responsiveness, 50x or better speed-up, with retrieval and display of license reports in just seconds, for even the biggest reports. * Huge improvements in license analysis speed, as much as 10 times faster, with analysis of full linux distribution DVD images in 24-48 hours (depending on system performance, CPU, memory, etc) * License detection accuracy improvements - the library of licenses and terms that we search for and report has been carefully tuned based on lots and lots of real-world testing * Completely redesigned build and release system, makes building and installing FOSSology from source code much easier, and also enables creation of FOSSology packages for common Linux distributions * Software packaging of FOSSology for the Debian Linux distribution - For the first time, the FOSSology project has a complete set of packages to enable simple apt-based installation of FOSSology on most DEB-based Linux systems. * (beta) Software packaging of FOSSology for the Fedora distribution, using native RPM packages. These RPM packages should provide streamlined installation on most RPM-based systems (Redhat, SuSE, etc) * Automated test suite to provide web-UI testing and validation by the FOSSology project and any other downstream users * Self-test agent that allows FOSSology to inspect itself and report on common configuration problems that could impact FOSSology operation View the complete release notes for FOSSology 1.0.0 for more details: [[release notes]] **Celebrating 1 year of FOSSology!** ====== Fossology RELEASE: Version 0.9.0 ====== New in version 0.9.0: * New "license term" capability added. This features allows the user to - create a predefined default set of common license terms/phrases and associate them with specific licenses - create new "groups" (aka canonical name) of license terms/phrases to fine tune fossology to identify particular terms within a scanned section and (optionally) associate it with one or more licenses. This new feature can be accessed via the UI through Organize -> License -> Manage Groups and via Organize -> License -> Manage Terms * Added new agent "licinspect" to inspect license sections for terms that might change the license identification. * Created agent-license-once-compare.php for selectively choosing the license to compare against. This feature is useful to see why fossology chose one license over another. This feature is available as the "Recompare" micro-menu in the View License window. * Added columns to the uploadtree table in the fossology db to eliminate expensive queries using join and improve overall db performance. * delagent: huge speed improvement (went from iterating to just doing one delete.) * Many new license templates added. * Many Bug fixes. Including, the "comma comma" problem, where a copyright statement containing a bunch of years separated by commas end up matching all other licenses that contain a series of commas.