Bug#924659: ITP: fossology -- FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit.

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 08:27:57PM +0530, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
> 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.

Cool! fossology already used to be in Debian until 2012, BTW:
https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fossology.html

Cheers,
        Moritz