REUSE compliance of fossology/fossology

Unfortunately, github.com/fossology/fossology is not REUSE compliant and does not fully adopt the recommendations to make software licensing easy for humans and machines alike. Have a look at our tutorial to learn about the three simple steps to become REUSE compliant.

Badge

To add the badge to your project's README.md file, use the following snippet: 

[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/fossology/fossology)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/fossology/fossology)

Machine-readable information

The API provides machine-readable artifacts for automatic analysis.

  • All information about the latest compliance check can also be accessed via a machine-parsable JSON file.
  • You can gather the automatically generated SPDX SBOM in Tag:Value format, based on the reuse spdx command.

Last lint output

Commit 44b9d1d318e7402b17550925e3b25d52aad0f6ac was checked on 17 Mar 2026 14:33:05 UTC with the following result: 

/opt/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reuse/project.py:332: PendingDeprecationWarning: '.reuse/dep5' is deprecated. You are recommended to instead use REUSE.toml. Use `reuse convert-dep5` to convert.
  warnings.warn(
reuse.report - ERROR - Unexpected error occurred while parsing 'NOTICES-THIRDPARTY.html'
reuse.exceptions.YearRangeParseError: 'International' is not a valid year range.
/opt/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/reuse/project.py:332: PendingDeprecationWarning: '.reuse/dep5' is deprecated. You are recommended to instead use REUSE.toml. Use `reuse convert-dep5` to convert.
  warnings.warn(
reuse.report - ERROR - Unexpected error occurred while parsing 'NOTICES-THIRDPARTY.html'
reuse.exceptions.YearRangeParseError: 'International' is not a valid year range.
# READ ERRORS

Could not read:
* NOTICES-THIRDPARTY.html

# SUMMARY

* Bad licenses: 0
* Deprecated licenses: 0
* Licenses without file extension: 0
* Missing licenses: 0
* Unused licenses: 0
* Used licenses: BSD-3-Clause, FSFAP, GPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only, MIT, W3C-19980720
* Read errors: 1
* Invalid SPDX License Expressions: 0
* Files with copyright information: 4549 / 4549
* Files with license information: 4549 / 4549

Unfortunately, your project is not compliant with version 3.3 of the REUSE Specification :-(


# RECOMMENDATIONS

* Fix read errors: At least one of the files in your directory cannot be read by
  the tool. Please check the file permissions. You will find the affected files
  at the top of the output as part of the logged error messages.