User Documentation

This page provides an index of FOSSology user documentation for Version 1.0.

Getting Started with FOSSology

• 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 Use FOSSology's Features

• How to Upload Files for Analysis
• How to Browse the Data-Base
• How to Find Analyzed License Information
• How to Interpret the License Analysis Report
• How to Interpret the License Group Analysis Report
• How to Add a License Template or License Phrase and Re-Analyze Licenses
• How to Interpret the Job Queue

Additional FOSSology Topics

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Current Known Limitations
• Troubleshooting
• Using FOSSology from the Command Line
• Multi-System Setup describing how to configure a cluster of agents for faster analysis
• rfo disk discussion A discussion of disk optimization for the repo.fossology.org cluster
• Glossary of Terms - definitions of Fossology terms

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 Sceenshots

• Videos
• Screenshots

Archived Documentation

• 0.6.1 Documentation Archive
• 0.9.0 Documentation Archive