FOSSology

h1. User Documentation

This page provides an index of current FOSSology user documentation.  Note that some documentation may reflect the development version of FOSSology rather than the released version

See also:  [[Sysadmin Documentation|System Administration Documentation]] and [[Developer Documentation]] pages for more details on these topics.

h2. Getting Started

* [[Introduction to FOSSology]]

* [[Quickstart]]

* [[Overview of the User Interface]]

* [[alternateUI|Using the alternate UI]]

** [[User Interface Comparison|Comparing Original and Alternate UIs]]

* FOSSology [[Release Notes]] (from our latest version)

* FOSSology "README":http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/trunk/fossology/README file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository

* FOSSology "INSTALL":http://fossology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fossology/trunk/fossology/INSTALL instructions file (from our latest version) in Subversion source code repository

h2. How To's

* [[How to Configure the FOSSology site|Configuring the FOSSology Site]]

* [[How to Upload Files for Analysis|Upload files for analysis]]

* [[How to Browse the Data-Base|Browse the database]]

* [[Comparing files for changes]]

* [[How to Find Analyzed License Information|Finding results]]

* [[How to use Tags and Groups|Using Tags and Groups]]

* [[How to Interpret the Job Queue|Interpret the job queue]]

* [[How to use Email Notification|Using email notification]]

* [[nomos|Add a new license]]

* [[Using FOSSology from the Command Line|Using FOSSology from the command line]]

* [[Creating and Using Bucketpools]]

h2. Additional FOSSology Topics

* [[admin:Admin User Interface|Administering FOSSology]]

* [[Frequently Asked Questions]]

* [[Current Known Limitations]]

* [[Troubleshooting]]

* [[Glossary of Terms]] - definitions of Fossology terms

* [[foss-scheduler|The FOSSology scheduler]]

h2. Presentations and Whitepapers

_Note:  These files have not yet been migrated to our new website_

* {{msr007p-gobeille.pdf|}} [[http://fossology.org/_media/msr007p-gobeille.pdf|FOSSology Project Whitepaper]] presented by Bob Gobeille at the [[http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2008/index.html|5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories]] on May 10th 2008 in Leipzig, Germany

* {{2008-04-26_fossology.odp|}} [[http://fossology.org/_media/2008-04-26_fossology.odp|FOSSology overview]] presented by Dan Stangel at the [[http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2008.html|2008 LinuxFest Northwest]] on April 26 2008 in Bellingham, Washington, USA

* {{2008-01_fossology_bobg_lca.odp|}} [[http://fossology.org/_media/2008-01_fossology_bobg_lca.odp|FOSSology overview]] presented by Bob Gobeille at [[http://lca2008.linux.org.au|Linux.conf.au]] on January 30 2008 in Melbourne, Australia

h2. Videos and Screenshots

* [[Videos]]

* [[Screenshots]]

h2. Archived Documentation

* [[0.6.1]] Documentation Archive

* [[0.9.0]] Documentation Archive

* [[1.0.0]] Documentation Archive