Q: What is Fossology?

A: Fossology is an open source license compliance software. It is intended to address license compliance needs for software by providing tooling under free-software terms.

Q: Is Fossology free software?

A: Yes. Fossology is classified as free software, which means it is distributed under terms that permit running, studying, changing, and redistributing the software and modified versions.

Q: Where can I find more information about Fossology?

A: Wikidata includes a description of Fossology and indicates a Japanese-language Wikipedia link (ja) is available as a sitelink. That is the recorded language link associated with its entry.

Fossology

Fossology is a open source license compliance software

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Fossology is a free software^[1].

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[1] ↑ Fossology is an instance of free software (Q341) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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