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: 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 README file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository
• FOSSology INSTALL file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository

How To's

• Upload files for analysis
• Browse the database
• Finding results
• Interpreting license results
• Interpreting license groups
• Add a new license
• Interpret the job queue
• Using email notification
• Using FOSSology from the command line

Additional FOSSology Topics

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Current Known Limitations
• Troubleshooting
• Glossary of Terms - definitions of Fossology terms
• The FOSSology scheduler

Presentations and Whitepapers

• msr007p-gobeille.pdf FOSSology Project Whitepaper presented by Bob Gobeille at the 5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories on May 10th 2008 in Leipzig, Germany
• 2008-04-26_fossology.odp FOSSology overview presented by Dan Stangel at the 2008 LinuxFest Northwest on April 26 2008 in Bellingham, Washington, USA
• 2008-01_fossology_bobg_lca.odp FOSSology overview presented by Bob Gobeille at 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