fossology/fossology
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow. observed · 2026-10-14
Health v2 · maintenance only
90/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 72
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 103
- age_days: 4663
- days_rel: 28
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
1035 stars · 654 forks observed · 2026-10-14
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
FOSSology is an open source license compliance system and toolkit that scans software for licenses, copyrights, and export control data. It provides both a command-line toolkit and a web-based system with a database for managing compliance workflows and generating SPDX reports.
Use cases
- scan a codebase for open source licenses
- generate an SPDX document for my project
- extract copyright notices from software
- run license compliance checks in CI
- audit an entire Linux distro for license obligations
- detect export control and copyright data in source files
When to choose
- you need automated license and copyright scanning at scale with deduplication
- you want a web UI workflow for compliance review with SPDX export
- you need to scan large codebases or whole distributions efficiently
When to avoid
- you only need a lightweight license identifier for a single file
- you need legal advice rather than automated scanning
- you cannot run PHP, PostgreSQL, and Apache infrastructure
Facets
application · maturity active
search-engine web-scraping parser developer-tools self-hosted cli gui developer-tools legal security self-hosted cli license-compliance spdx license-scanning copyright-detection export-control open-source-compliance php postgresql open-source licensing linux docker web-server
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/fossology/fossology · fetched 2026-10-14 · 357408f2ca7a
- homepage: https://fossology.github.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · d8bf1926cb84
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| fossology/fossology | main | 90 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="fossology/fossology")
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