====== User Documentation ======

//This page provides an index of current FOSSology user documentation.  Note that some documentation may reflect the development version of FOSSology rather than the released version//

See also:  [[Sysadmin Documentation|System Administration Documentation]] and [[Developer Documentation]] pages for more details on these topics.

__**Getting Started**__
  * [[Introduction to FOSSology]]
  * [[Quickstart]]
  * [[Overview of the User Interface]]

  * FOSSology [[Release Notes]] (from our latest version)
  * FOSSology [[http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/trunk/fossology/README|README]] file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository
  * FOSSology [[http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/trunk/fossology/INSTALL|INSTALL]] file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository


__**How To's**__
  * [[How to Upload Files for Analysis | Upload files for analysis]]
  * [[How to Browse the Data-Base | Browse the database]]
  * [[How to Find Analyzed License Information | Finding results]]
  * [[How to Interpret the License Analysis Report | Interpreting license results]]
  * [[interpret the License Group Analysis Report|Interpreting license groups]]
  * [[How to Add a License Template or License Phrase and Re-Analyze Licenses | Add a new license]]    
  * [[How to Interpret the Job Queue | Interpret the job queue]]
  * [[How to use Email Notification | Using email notification]]
  * [[Using FOSSology from the Command Line | Using FOSSology from the command line]]



__**Additional FOSSology Topics**__
  * [[Frequently Asked Questions]]
  * [[Current Known Limitations]]
  * [[Troubleshooting]]
  * [[Glossary of Terms]] - definitions of Fossology terms
  * [[foss-scheduler | The FOSSology scheduler]]



__**Presentations and Whitepapers**__

  * {{msr007p-gobeille.pdf|}} [[http://fossology.org/_media/msr007p-gobeille.pdf|FOSSology Project Whitepaper]] presented by Bob Gobeille at the [[http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2008/index.html|5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories]] on May 10th 2008 in Leipzig, Germany
  * {{2008-04-26_fossology.odp|}} [[http://fossology.org/_media/2008-04-26_fossology.odp|FOSSology overview]] presented by Dan Stangel at the [[http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2008.html|2008 LinuxFest Northwest]] on April 26 2008 in Bellingham, Washington, USA
  * {{2008-01_fossology_bobg_lca.odp|}} [[http://fossology.org/_media/2008-01_fossology_bobg_lca.odp|FOSSology overview]] presented by Bob Gobeille at [[http://lca2008.linux.org.au|Linux.conf.au]] on January 30 2008 in Melbourne, Australia 



__**Videos and Screenshots**__
  * [[Videos]]
  * [[Screenshots]]


__**Archived Documentation**__
  * [[0.6.1]] Documentation Archive
  * [[0.9.0]] Documentation Archive
  * [[1.0.0]] Documentation Archive