FOSSology 1.2.0 released July 8, 2010

The FOSSology Project is pleased to announce the release of FOSSology 1.2.0. Download the new packages at http://fossology.org/download.

The FOSSology Project

Our mission is to build free software tools to facilitate the study and analysis of Free and Open Source Software. Today we are best known for finding software licenses in text.

Installing the FOSSology software:


A short paper on FOSSology using v 1.2 examples

Version 1.2.0, July 8, 2010

  1. Much faster and more accurate license detection. We call this the Nomos License scanner because it is based on a license scanner used internally by HP for several years. It's fast, it's accurate, but currently is unable to highlight the found license when you view the file and it requires one to update and recompile source code to add licenses. We are evaluating how to put these features in (back in) to a future release of FOSSology.
  2. The previous license scanner (bSAM) has been moved to “Obsolete” in the top menu. We encourage people not to submit anything to the bSAM agent because we plan on removing it in a future version (probably v 1.3). Obsoleting bSAM also means that the license groups feature will go away (replaced by buckets, see below).
  3. Copyright/URL/email scanner. This is a new agent that beta users have liked, but has one flaw, it gets many false positives. This is unfortunate but beta users have still found this feature very usable and useful. The next version will do a much better job filtering out the false positives.
  4. Ability to customize reporting categories. For example, “copyleft licenses”, “ship hold licenses”, … these are defined by the administrator of the system you are using. These categories are called buckets and a set of buckets used together is called a bucket pool. When 1.2 is installed, a very simple demo bucket pool will be created. To use it, you must go into Admin > Users > Account Settings and set your Default Bucket Pool. Do this before submitting a job to the bucket agent.
  5. Much faster report (web page) generation
  6. Cataloging both RPM and Debian package data

Version 1.1.0, July 17, 2009

New in version 1.1.0:

See Release Notes

Version 1.0.0, December 17, 2008

New in version 1.0.0:

View the complete release notes for FOSSology 1.0.0 for more details: release notes

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