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Welcome to the OSS Discovery Project

OSS Discovery is an open source tool that finds installed open source software. It can be used to inventory open source software across an enterprise or on a single computer. Using OSS Discovery, individuals and companies can easily contribute data about how much open source software is being used to The Open Source Census.

Project Goals

Most enterprises are using open source software in many areas of their business. However, open source typically bypasses traditional procurement processes, making it difficult for companies to accurately inventory their open source usage. OSS Discovery was created to solve this problem. It helps enterprises easily create an inventory of installed open source software. This inventory, enables enterprises to:

  • Develop support and maintenance plans

  • Comply with open source licenses

  • Measure and communicate the benefits of open source software

  • Find opportunities to use more open source software

OSS Discovery will also be used to support The Open Source Census. Learn more at About The Open Source Census.

Founding Sponsor

OpenLogic is the founding sponsor of the OSS Discovery project.

OSS Discovery News

April 15, 2008: OSS Discovery 2.0 released; OSS Census Launched

March 18, 2008: OSS Discovery 2.0b1 released

December 17, 2007: Fingerprint for BusyBox added to OSS Discovery

December 12, 2007: OpenLogic Announces Plans for Global Open Source Census

December 12, 2007: OSS Discovery released under GNU Affero General Public License v3

December 12, 2007: OSS Discovery 2.0 alpha2 now available

Project Status

We have now released an alpha version of OSS Discovery 2.0 under an open source license. The final release of OSS Discovery 2.0 will be available in Q1 2008.

Make Sure OSS Discovery can Find Your Favorite Project

OSS Discovery 2.0 has a new pluggable architecture that enables the open source community to contribute fingerprint rules that OSS Discovery uses to find each open source software package. We are now looking for your help in expanding the list of available fingerprints. To make sure OSS Discovery can find your favorite open source package, check out How to Participate and Contribute Fingerprints for more information.

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