The FOSSology Project is pleased to announce the release of FOSSology 1.0.0
New in version 1.0.0: * Massive improvements to web-based user interface responsiveness, 50x or better speed-up, with retrieval and display of license reports in just seconds, for even the biggest reports. * Huge improvements in license analysis speed, as much as 10 times faster, with analysis of full linux distribution DVD images in 24-48 hours (depending on system performance, CPU, memory, etc) * License detection accuracy improvements - the library of licenses and terms that we search for and report has been carefully tuned based on lots and lots of real-world testing * Completely redesigned build and release system, makes building and installing FOSSology from source code much easier, and also enables creation of FOSSology packages for common Linux distributions * Software packaging of FOSSology for the Debian Linux distribution - For the first time, the FOSSology project has a complete set of packages to enable simple apt-based installation of FOSSology on most DEB-based Linux systems. * (beta) Software packaging of FOSSology for the Fedora distribution, using native RPM packages. These RPM packages should provide streamlined installation on most RPM-based systems (Redhat, SuSE, etc) * Automated test suite to provide web-UI testing and validation by the FOSSology project and any other downstream users * Self-test agent that allows FOSSology to inspect itself and report on common configuration problems that could impact FOSSology operation View the complete release notes for FOSSology 1.0.0 for more details: http://fossology.org/release_notes For more information on the FOSSology project and to download the software, please visit http://fossology.org/ -- About FOSSology -- Now celebrating its first birthday as an open source software project, FOSSology is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) project built around an open and modular architecture for analyzing software. Existing modules include license analysis, meta data extraction, and MIME type identification. This open source software tool analyzes a given set of software packages, and reports items such as the software licenses used by these packages. More than simply reporting, "Package X uses license Y," the FOSSology tool attempts to analyze every file within the package to determine its license. The license report is thus an aggregate of all of the different licenses found to be in use by a package. A single package may be labeled as "GPL" but contain files that use other licenses (BSD, OSL, or any of the hundreds of other licenses). Even if an exact license is unknown, the license may be identifiable by common license phrases. The FOSSology Project started as an internal software development effort within Hewlett-Packard's Open Source and Linux Organization. The tool evolved over several years at HP from a few simple shell scripts to the much more comprehensive tool you see today. Enjoy! The FOSSology team _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list [email protected] http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
