FOSSology is a 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. In one click you can generate an SPDX file, or a ReadMe with all the copyrights notices from your software. FOSSology deduplication means that you can scan an entire distro, rescan a new version, and only the changed files will get rescanned. This is a big time saver for large projects.
FOSSology does not give legal advice. http://fossology.org/
FOSSology is available for multiple versions of Linux. There are installation packages for Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, and Fedora, and a source tarball available from the fossology.org site. See
For installation instructions see http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki
FOSSology comes with a Dockerfile allowing the containerized execution both as single instance or in combination with an external PostgreSQL database. Note: It is strongly recommended to use an external database for production use, since the the standalone image does not take care of data persistency.
A pre-built Docker image is available from Docker Hub and can be run using following command:
docker run -p 8081:80 fossology/fossologyExecution with external database container can be done using Docker Compose.
The Docker Compose file is located under the /install folder can can be run using following command:
cd install
docker-compose upThe Docker image allows configuration of it's database connection over a set of environment variables.
- FOSSOLOGY_DB_HOST: Hostname of the PostgreSQL database server.
An integrated PostgreSQL instance is used if not defined or set to
localhost. - FOSSOLOGY_DB_NAME: Name of the PostgreSQL database. Defaults to
fossology. - FOSSOLOGY_DB_USER: User to be used for PostgreSQL connection. Defaults to
fossy. - FOSSOLOGY_DB_PASSWORD: Password to be used for PostgreSQL connection. Defaults to
fossy.
We are currently migrating our documentation to github. At this stage you can find general documentation at: http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/User_Documentation and developer docs here on github
Mailing lists, FAQs, Release Notes, and other useful info is available by clicking the documentation tab on the project website. We encourage all users to join the mailing list and participate in discussions. There is also a #fossology IRC channel on the freenode IRC network if you'd like to talk to other FOSSology users and developers. See Contact Us
We really like contributions in several forms, see CONTRIBUTING.md
FOSSology is licensed under GPL-2.0
