We are pleased to announce FOSSology 2.5.0 Release Candidate 1
Installation instructions are at:
http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/wiki/Install_2_5
NOTICE
• Be aware that the only supported upgrade path is a sequential one 2.0
> 2.1 > 2.2 > 2.3 > 2.4 > 2.5.
• If you run into any upgrade errors, for example with the copyright
table, please let us know.
• Many thanks to all of you who submitted bugs, patches and
suggestions. FOSSology is for everyone, thank you for helping to make it better.
WHAT CHANGED:
• Switched source code repository to GIT (but still on SourceForge)
• Fixed unpack failure when archive asks for password
• Make nightly builds publicly accessible
• Fix Ubuntu 12.04 packaging error
• Improve FOSSology upgrade speed
• New command line program to list buckets (fo_bucket_list)
• Several user interface bugs fixed.
LICENSE SCANNER UPDATES:
• Fixed issue detecting Apache 2.0 reference
• Fix for GPL-v3 being labeled GPL-v3+ in certain cases
• Fixed several special cases where GPL was labelled LGPL or missed
completely
• Fix problem of embedded quote in license names
• Fix case of GPL-2.0+ being identified as GPL-2.0
• Fix EPL labeled as CPL
• Fix special case of missed Boost software license
• Multiple fixes for special cases where GPL was missed
• Fix missed Sun Legal Notice
• Fix case where upload was failing on directories that contain spaces
• Fix special case where Freetype license was missed
• Fix MIT that should have been MIT-style
• Fix special case of missed CPL-1.0
• Fix cases of missed file references
• Add LIBGCJ license
• Add WordNet (was being detected as MIT/Princeton license
• Add Interbase-1.0 license
• Add KnowledgeTree-1.1
• Add Open Cascade Technology Public License
• Add identifing licenses referenced in .spec files
• Add ACE license
• Add FACE license
• Add Tapjoy license
• Add ClearSilver license
• Add LGPL-2.1+-KDE-exception
All the issues can be seen in our issue tracker
(http://www.fossology.org/projects/fossology/issues).
We are hoping to make the final 2.5.0 release on April 9, 2014. So any testing
you can get in would be great.
The FOSSology Team
Bob, Larry, Vincent and Paul (others are welcome to join us)
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