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The FOSSology project

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By its nature, the availability of FOSS has given computer scientists a large body of software and software projects to analyze. By having available source, version control system metadata, and open project communities, much can be learned about a software project, software development and collaborative project development. The goal of the FOSSology project is to create a public, open source software repository, together with tools to facilitate analysis, storage, and sharing of open source software and its metadata. FOSSology does license detection today.

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Krawetz, N., "Symbolic Alignment Matrix ", http://fossology.org/docs/symbolic_alignment_matrix, 2008
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MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories
May 2008
162 pages
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DOI:10.1145/1370750
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