ITP: fossology -- FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit.

[Gaurav Mishra <gmishx@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp

Severity: wishlist

Owner: Gaurav Mishra <gmishx@gmail.com>

  Package name : fossology

  Version : 3.4.0

  Upstream Author : Michael Jaeger <michael.c.jaeger@siemens.com>

  URL : https://www.fossology.org/

  License : GPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only

  Programming Lang: C, C++, PHP

  Description : FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit.

 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.

 - Why is this package useful/relevant?

   - FOSSology is a famous tool used for open source license compliance.

     We have a large database of users which can be benifited by

     publishing this as a Debian package.

 - Do you use it?

   - You can check https://www.fossology.org/ to get a list of compaines

     and organizations using FOSSology.

 - How do you plan to maintain it?

   - FOSSology is currently maintained at

     https://github.com/fossology/fossology. I have created a mirror for

     the same at https://salsa.debian.org/fossology-team/fossology.

 - Are you looking for co-maintainers or a sponsor?

   - We are looking for a sponsor to help us publish FOSSology as a

     Debian package.