HP Launches FOSSology Open Source Tracking Tool 62
cpudney writes "An article in Computerworld UK reports on a new open source analysis initiative launched by Hewlett-Packard. The FOSSology Project's mission is to 'build a community to facilitate the study of Free and Open Source Software by providing free data analysis tools.' The first such tool reports how an open source project is licensed. Rather than simply collecting a project's advertised license, the tool analyzes all of the source code for a given project and reports all of the licenses being used, based on the license declarations and tell-tale phrases that identify software licensing. A video demonstrating the tool applied to abiword is available. The FOSSology source code is licensed under GPLv2."
Open Source competition to commercial products (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:FOSS that solves problems created by FOSS? (Score:5, Insightful)
No point defeated, FOSS exists because of copyright law and software that helps ensure licensing is proper is a great way for the movement(s) to self-police.