User Documentation

This page provides an index of current FOSSology user documentation. Note that some documentation may reflect the development version of FOSSology rather than the released version

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
• How to use Email Notification

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