FOSSology 1.4.0 RC5 available See below for details.

Nathan Willis: Weekend Project: Get to Know Your Source Code with FOSSology

A Linux Foundation paper on FOSSology using v 1.2

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:

• creates an empty software filesystem repository
• creates a database (PostgreSQL) for metadata storage and retrieval
• provides web and command line interfaces to populate the software repository
• provides web interface for viewing reports
• provides a batch subsystem for running lengthy analyses and reports
• provides engines (run from the web or cli) for:
  • License analysis (analyzes EVERY file for license information)
  • RPM spec file parsing
  • metadata extraction from libextractor (jpg headers, pdf, doc, …)
  • file type
  • executing ad hoc sql
  • executing ad hoc scripts

• RC5 Announced 5/2/2011

RC5 is now available for debian, and can be installed using the information below. RC5 RPM packages will be built and made available on or about May 5.

Greetings FOSSologists!

The FOSSology Project is pleased to announce RC5 deb packages for FOSSology 1.4.0. Unofficial install packages on the following platforms & distros are now available for download and testing:

• Debian/Ubuntu Packages (amd64 & i386) http://fossology.org/debian/1.4.0/

For debian squeeze installs, add this line to your sources.list

  deb http://fossology.org/debian/1.4.0/squeeze/ ./

For debian lenny installs, add this line to your sources.list

  deb http://fossology.org/debian/1.4.0/lenny/./

For ubuntu:

  deb http://fossology.org/debian/ubuntu/karmic/  ./ 
  deb http://fossology.org/debian/ubuntu/lucid/  ./ 
  deb http://fossology.org/debian/ubuntu/maverick/ ./

RPM packages will be available later this week (Thursday, 5/5/2011) from the project website:

• RPM Packages (rhel5/centos5, rhel6/centos6, fedora12, fedora13, fedora14 for i386 and x86_64) http://fossology.org/rpms/

Note for Rhel6 packages: 1 dependency, php-process, is not available from the default rhel repository. You can download a copy from:

http://fossology.org/rpms/epel/testing/6/i386/php-process-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.i686.rpm 
http://fossology.org/rpms/epel/testing/6/x86_64/php-process-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm 

Or you need apply this update:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0195.html 

To use yum install, you need to edit the repo file, /etc/yum.repo.d/:

1. Rhel/CentOS repo file need add following lines:

  # FOSSology release candidates and other special builds
  [fossology-testing]
  name=Fossology testing
  baseurl=http://fossology.org/rpms/epel/testing/$releasever/$basearch
  enabled=0
  gpgcheck=0

2. Fedora repo file need add following lines:

# FOSSology release candidates and other special builds

  [fossology-testing] 
  name=Fossology testing 
  baseurl=http://fossology.org/rpms/fedora/testing/$releasever/$basearch
  enabled=0
  gpgcheck=0

3. yum –enablerepo=fossology-testing install fossology

New features/enhancements include:

• New Comparison tool. This allows one to focus on the differences between two file trees. For example, you might want to compare two versions of a package to see what licenses changed.
• A new simplified User Interface AND the option to assign the “Simplified” or “Original” UI on a per user basis.
• Implement authentication using Siteminder
• Improved user documentation
• Multiple file upload from URL
• Dramatic improvements in the copyright agent.
• 1.4.0 Defect List

Please report bugs using our bug reporting system hosted by The Linux Foundation at http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/ OR, write to the fossology mailing list at fossology@fossology.org.

The FOSSology Project http://fossology.org

• The FOSSology Project is pleased to announce the release of FOSSology 1.3.0.
• Install packages for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fossology/files/fossology/1.3.0/.
• Older versions of FOSSology are available in the Debian Lenny and Ubuntu releases. You can install the non-distro versions of FOSSology 1.3.0 from the “unofficial” debian/Ubuntu packages at http://fossology.org/download.
• FOSSology tested distros and distro specific instructions for 1.3.0 can be found here.

• Details about the 1.2.1 release can be found in the release notes.
• The source tarball can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fossology/files/.
• You can download the new “unofficial” packages from http://fossology.org/download.
• Supported distros and distro specific instructions for 1.3.0 can be found here.

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

All past and present release notes are here.