FOSSology
FOSSology is an open source analyze tool. The mission of this is to build a community that facilitates the study of free and open source software by providing free and open source data analysis tools. However, this tool has been evolved to be a set of tools to assist open source governance. Today, the predominent use of FOSSology to scan files for copyrights and licenses.
the installation files can be checked out from the link http://www.fossology.org/releases/
there are debian, Fedora, RHEL, ubuntu variants of the software.
Once the setup is done, just can give the files to analyze or the SVN url of the target project to analyze and the report will be generated by scanning the files and giving the Licenes used the in the app. This tool tell the licensing used in various sources included in the application. Whether or not they to be corrected, is unto the developer.
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